Who has argued nation as an 'imagined community'?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Benedict Anderson
NCERT (2025-26): “7.1 The Beginnings of Modern Mass Media … The well known scholar Benedict Anderson has thus argued that this helped the growth of nationalism, the feeling that people who did not even know of each other’s existence feel like members of a family. It gave people who would never meet each other a sense of togetherness. Anderson thus suggested that we could think of the nation as an ‘imagined community’.” |