![]() ![]() “Finally, it is imagined as a ‘community’ because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep horizontal comradeship. It is imagined as a ‘sovereign’ because within the realm, the Ruler will have the supreme power to control and guide the affairs of its citizens. ![]() “The nation is imagined as ‘limited’ because even the largest of them, encompassing perhaps a billion people, has finite if elastic boundaries, beyond which lie other nations”. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion”. Benedict Anderson, one of the foremost thinkers on the concept of ‘nation’, defines it as “an imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. ![]() Millions of individuals aggregated on the basis of certain commonalities, such as co-habiting in one geographical location, shared history, culture, race, religion, language, etc., do form a nation. Society is an aggregation of individuals, and therefore, the primary unit is an individual. ![]()
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