HIS282H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indian Rebellion Of 1857, Indian National Congress, Ernest Gellner

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Movement in third world so that the nation is the state. Ernest gellner: the national and political unit be the same. Anti-colonialism seeks poltical independence for the nation. A state that is independent from colonizers. He doesn"t say what it is but explains what it does but if one of the thing change. Generally, nation is people that speak common language, are in the same territory or same objective in life. Andersen: nation is an imagined political community ; this means that you imagine yourself to be a part of a community along with other people. We say our hockey but its not us playing in it, it just seems real to us. Can the various forms of anti-colonial revolt from 1500s on, or 1757 on be considered nationalist: no concept of unified ceylon or sri-lankan nation, no concept of a unified india or indian nation.

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