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How are the concepts of nation, state and citizenship interrelated in a democracy? Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Politics and Society

For Max Weber, the state is the community that claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a territory. Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities, 1983) calls the nation an imagined political community. T. H. Marshall (Citizenship and Social Class, 1950) defines citizenship as full membership of a community with equal rights and duties.…

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  • The triangle of interdependence
  • How democracy binds them
  • Tensions
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