National Integration: The State in Search of Community
Rajagopalan, Swarna
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Description
Title
National Integration: The State in Search of Community
Author(s)
Rajagopalan, Swarna
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Cohen, Stephen P.
Department of Study
Political Science
Discipline
Political Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Language
eng
Abstract
Chapter 1 lays out the intellectual context---Euro-American and South Asian---of the problem. Chapter 2 is a discussion of the political issues involved in writing and teaching history with a view to integrating the people in a state. Chapter 3 reconstructs the histories of the three communities studied on the basis of oral narratives and published accounts. Chapter 4 explicates the state's vision as stated in their constitutions and contrasts them with the views of the elite in the three communities. Chapter 5 shows that while the bases of vision might lie in history and socialization, the terrain of their contest is the definition of units within the state. Chapter 6 discusses the major findings of the study. The study, finding that the state is no more, no less than the primary facilitator of integration, identifies reconciliation and accommodation as important principles of both constitutional self-definition and state policy.
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