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Discuss the implications of ethnicity and nation-building in South Asia, and their impact in the relations of states within South Asia.

  • UPSC 2011
  • 30 marks
  • India and South Asia

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Nation-building is the effort to turn a population inside inherited borders into a political community loyal to the state; Karl W. Deutsch (Nationalism and Social Communication, 1953) tied it to dense social communication. Urmila Phadnis (Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia, 1989) argued that in this region ethnic assertion is not a residue that nation-building…

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  • The dialectic of ethnicity and nation-building
  • Two models and their domestic implications
  • Impact on relations among South Asian states
  • Conclusion
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