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S Manickavasagam .
The first sentence of the Indian Constitution reads "India, that is
Bharath, is a Union of States". but unwittingly or deliberately, a
reversion has crept in. The States referred to are linguistic states
and are "nations" in the European sense of the term. These nations of
India with their specific cultures co-exist under one political roof -
the sovereign state of India.
Sovereignty is the distinctive characteristics of the state (here, the
Indian Republic), but the states referred to in the first sentence of
the Constitution are lingustic entities, that is "nations" ....
Thus understod, Tamilnadu is a "nation" with its own district culture
as other linguistic states. That is, the Indian Republic is a state
and the provincial states of India are nations....
But in our everyday converstions as well as scholarly writings we
refere India as a nation and the nations of India as states: confusion
confounded.....
---- T. K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus,
Jawaharlal Nehru University - New Delhi
(The Hindu (Chennai Edition), February 7 - 2017, page 14, Situatiing
the wider jallikattu conundrum)
The first sentence of the Indian Constitution reads "India, that is
Bharath, is a Union of States". but unwittingly or deliberately, a
reversion has crept in. The States referred to are linguistic states
and are "nations" in the European sense of the term. These nations of
India with their specific cultures co-exist under one political roof -
the sovereign state of India.
Sovereignty is the distinctive characteristics of the state (here, the
Indian Republic), but the states referred to in the first sentence of
the Constitution are lingustic entities, that is "nations" ....
Thus understod, Tamilnadu is a "nation" with its own district culture
as other linguistic states. That is, the Indian Republic is a state
and the provincial states of India are nations....
But in our everyday converstions as well as scholarly writings we
refere India as a nation and the nations of India as states: confusion
confounded.....
---- T. K. Oommen, Professor Emeritus,
Jawaharlal Nehru University - New Delhi
(The Hindu (Chennai Edition), February 7 - 2017, page 14, Situatiing
the wider jallikattu conundrum)
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