| Arise Arjuna Hinduism And The
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| INDIA AND THE CONCEPT OF
NATION-STATE |
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The problem
appears to be more an Islamic problem than an Indian one. It goes back to the Islamic
rejection of the division of religion and state and the Islamic division of humanity into
the rule of Islam (which is thought to be the will of God) and the rule of non-Islam
(which is regarded as unholy and to be replaced by the rule of Islam).
India has not yet gone through a nationalistic phase like modern Europe. It has not had a
period like modern Europe wherein the different states within India functioned as
different countries or regarded themselves as different nations. Foreign rulership helped
prevent this from occurring, but a tendency to ward it still remains. Part of the
fragmentation in modern India has occurred because parts of the country, like Tamil Nadu
for example, are trying to undergo a nationalistic phase. It is easy to observe from
Europe that such small nation-states wreak havoc upon a subcontinent and if India were to
divide into them it would have similar wars, genocides, and relocations of populations
followed by a longer term seeking for reunification along economic lines as has been the
case with Europe. Hopefully India will not have to go through the European style
nationalistic phase, and the results if it did would be disastrous. |
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