Anderson says in a very ANTHROPOLOGICAL SPIRIT that THE NATION IS “AN IMAGINED POLITICAL COMMUNITY INHERENTLY LIMITED AND SOVEREIGN.” The major idea of the book rests in Anderson’s expounding definition of nations as – Imagined Communities. In the afterword to the book Anderson says that: “Aside from the advantages of brevity, IC restfully occludes a pair of words from which the vampires of banality have by now sucked almost all the blood.” What would I change in the book? Well, should I try to change my daughter?” I can wish her good luck, but now she belongs with someone else. I have a relationship to that book as to a daughter who has grown up and run off with a bus driver - I see her occasionally but, really, she has gone her own merry way. Talking of Imagined Communities, Anderson once said that, “I wrote the book when I was 45. Let us start by comprehending the major arguments of the book. This article is an approach for comparing Anderson’s ideas in the book Imagined Communities and Mayawati’s political propaganda. Imagined Communities was published in 1983 and a revised edition was available in 1991 (adding two chapters). Three significant works were written that year: Nations and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner, The Invention Of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawn and Terence Ranger and the third was Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (IC). Edited by Michelle Cherian, Associate Editor, The Indian Economistġ983 was a year of consequence in the study of nationalism.
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