National Integration: The State in Search of Community

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Rajagopalan, Swarna

Contributors dc:contributor

• Cohen, Stephen P.

• History, Asia, Australia and Oceania

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912349

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82599