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Analyse the problems of nation building in India.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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Nation building is the process by which people who share a state come to share a political identity and a loyalty to that state. Karl W. Deutsch (Nationalism and Social Communication, 1953) traced it to social mobilisation and dense communication; India had to achieve it without a common language or faith. Alfred Stepan, Juan J.…

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