extreme right in Europe, the United States and India the need for a study of religion and identity becomes increasingly pertinent. To understand this confluence of religious and national extremism this paper tries to trace the roots of nationalism and explores its links to religion in Europe. This paper will try to argue that not only that nationalism has replaced religion but also that nationalism is a form of religious expression in and of itself. ‘Religion’ and ‘nationalism’ have long been contested
Nationalism played a central role in China’s path to modernity. Numerous scholars have discussed the role nationalism played in transitioning from imperial to today’s China. In many ways and across various regimes, nationalism has been a mean of legitimacy for the authorities. But today, when millions of young Chinese protest in the streets during the Beijing Olympic Torch relay in 2008, the Chinese state has to maintain China’s place on the international scene, as well as dealing with popular nationalists
SUBALTERN The subaltern is a technical term for certain kind of a dispossessed person. It is a person who fits within the model of the oppressor/ oppressed as they being so marginalized as to not even have the ‘voice’ of the oppressed. So, symbolically, we might say that the colonizer is self, colonized is the other, and all those who are invisible to both self and the other are the subaltern. In critical theory and post colonialism, the term subaltern designates the populations which are socially
question of nationalism was revitalized. The Spy (1821) proved that America possessed a rich source for creating historical fiction. That novel was “as much about the founding of an American literature as about the establishment of American independence” (Gilmore 679). Before Cooper aesthetic value had always been in Europe; “Cooper performed the patriotic service of showing that authentic works of art could grow in indigenous soil too. His book quickly became a best-seller here and in Europe and inspired
its independence in 1921,Ireland became tied to the consolidation and affirmation of identity without English influence. There was a now a great community will to preserve what was left of the Irish culture drawing on national pride and cultural nationalism. A German Historian Fredrich Meinecke stated that there are two types of nations 1. Cultural nations and 2. Political nations. A Cultural nation like Ireland sees an ethnic and political stance overlap in the aims of the nation. Our Constitution
Essay Political, social, economical, or cultural events imposed its effect on all kinds of art, especially on music, hence it’s easily influenced. This becomes very clear and obvious during the British colonization of Egypt in 1882, after the defeat of the Egyptian army that was lead by Ahmed Oraby. During this time, the egyptian people were fighting against the occupation of the British, Muhammad Ali’s family, social problems, and economic catastrophes. Facing all these factors that opposed them
The interwar period (1919-1939) is crucial in the history of India as it is an important part of the jigsaw puzzle in understanding the contemporary political structure and the formation in Modern India and Pakistan. This period as a whole is very sensitive as huge changes and restructuring were taking place all over the world after the drastic world war. Since the world I war was mostly fought between colonies and as the World War I came to end, many or simply most of the colonies which due to
Development and underdevelopment are two terms that have found common usage in Africa’ (Mwaura, 2005: 1). History and experience ‘have taught us that development is a complex process and that no one has all the answers’ (Mkandawire and Soludo, eds. 1998). Rodney (1972:3) states that development in human society is a many-sided process. At the level of the individual, it implies increased skill and capacity, greater freedom, creativity, selfdiscipline, responsibility, and material well-being’.
State building and Nation Building (Journal Article) This is an essay by Juan J. Linz, which discusses the processes involved in state and nation building from a historical and contemporary perspective. It explains the difficulties faced in making a nation out of a state and vice versa. 4. State and Society in India:
could disguise the truth of what was occurring in the name of institutional ‘expedience’ or ‘national honor’’ (Representations 6). In short, for Benda real intellectuals are those who denounce corruption (6). (intellectual Resistance To Prisons Of Nationalism In The Twentieth Century Egyptian and Children Drama