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Do you subscribe to the view that the modern constructs of the State and politics are preeminently Eurocentric and not indigenous and appropriate for the analysis of non-western societies?

  • UPSC 2015
  • 10 marks
  • State in Comparative Perspective

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The modern state, territorial, sovereign and bureaucratic, took shape in Europe after the Peace of Westphalia (1648), and the vocabulary used to study it (sovereignty, nation-state, secularism, civil society, class, political development) grew from European history. The view is largely right about origins but overstated about applicability: the constructs are Eurocentric, yet non-Western societies have…

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