Anthropology
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Abstract

Cultural Nationalism in India

Aditi Athreya

The concept of Nationalism is linked to the idea of sovereignty and hence; it has to be associated to the principle of self-determination [1]. In the 19th century, John Stuart Mill argued that nationalist movements were dependent on ethnicity, language and culture. These were the basis of the demand for statehood. While this stood true for most nationalistic movements, Hurst Hanum of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy remarked that in this era, the notion of selfdetermination was used by groups to divide rather than unify territory [2]. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire can be used as an example.