Write an essay to discuss either one of these two questions

1. Of the theories and definitions of Nation and Nationalism studied in this course, whose definition do you find best suited to understand nationalism in Indian today? Explain your answer by highlighting the insights you gained from this thinker, but also compared him to the others too, as well as take comparative examples from other countries’ nationalisms too.
2. Will nationalism survive globalisation? Or will globalisation, in its current information technology mediated version, lead to the fading away of nationalism and nation-states?

Theory of nationalism for India (Discarded)

• Non-existence of idea of “national”?
• Equivalence of national and citizen

I like Hobsbawm’s theories on Invented Tradition, as it’s widespread in justifying nationalism in India currently:

• Chai as a culture
• Durga Puja/Ganesh Chaturthi
• Shyam’s DHP on ITs in India (GI tags ones)

Aspects of Gellner:

• Many potential nationalisms, actualised as states

Questions

• Nationalism in India today = popular sentiment? What judges have said? Isn’t most legal discourse around Citizenship, so will that come into the picture?

Final Submission: 52/60