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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Problems of nation-building in developing countries.

  • UPSC 1986
  • Works and Economic Life

Nation-building is the process by which diverse peoples within a state's territory come to share a political community and loyalty to that state. Karl W. Deutsch and William J. Foltz made it a field of study in Nation-Building (1963). In Europe the nation largely preceded the state. In post-colonial Asia and Africa the state came…

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