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“Nations and States have become virtually synonymous.” Elucidate. (200 words)

  • UPSC 2012
  • 15 marks
  • State in Comparative Perspective

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The state is a legal-political institution: for Max Weber, a community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a territory. The nation is a cultural-psychological community, which Ernest Renan (1882) called a daily plebiscite. Modern politics has fused the two into the "nation-state". The statement is accurate about the…

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  • How the fusion happened
  • Theories that explain the synonymy
  • Why only "virtually"
  • The Indian case
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