India’s independence

Discuss one example of how Indians imagine themselves as “Indian. “How does this example compare to other nations’ developments?
Do Indians imagine themselves as “Indian” because of or in spite of the many differences with their national political community?
“One might think of independent India as being Europe’s past as well as its future. It is Europe’s past, in that it has reproduced, albeit more fiercely and intensely, the conflicts of a modernizing, industrializing and urbanizing society. But it is also its future in that it anticipated, by some fifty years, the European attempt to create a multilingual, multireligious, multiethnic, political and economic community” (24)What do you think? Can we make comparisons like this across nations and across time? Or is each one’s development too unique to itself?

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