Find the correct statements:
A. Nation is a community of communities.
B. State is a body that successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate force in a particular territory
C. Nations are communities that have a state of their own
D. Members of a nation do not share the desire to be a part of the same political conductivity
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A, B, C only
A. Nation is a community of communities. Correct. At the simplest level, a nation is a sort of large-scale community — it is a community of communities.
B. State is a body that successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate force in a particular territory Correct. This is Max Weber’s well-known definition of the state: a set of political-legal institutions claiming control over a territory and its people.
C. Nations are communities that have a state of their own Correct. The criterion that comes closest to distinguishing a nation is the state: unlike other communities, nations are communities that have a state of their own. That is why the two words are joined in the term nation-state.
D. Members of a nation do not share the desire to be a part of the same political conductivity Incorrect. The word ‘not’ makes this false. Members of a nation share the desire to be part of the same political collectivity, and this desire for political unity usually shows itself as the aspiration to form a state.
Note: It seems that there is a mistake in the original NTA paper, which prints ‘political conductivity’ in statement D when it should read ‘political collectivity’, the words of the book; ‘conductivity’ has no meaning here. The answer does not change, because the statement is false either way: it denies the shared desire that marks a nation.
NCERT (2025-26): “Communities, Nations and Nation-States … At the simplest level, a nation is a sort of large-scale community – it is a community of communities. Members of a nation share the desire to be part of the same political collectivity. This desire for political unity usually expresses itself as the aspiration to form a state. In its most general sense, the term state refers to an abstract entity consisting of a set of political-legal institutions claiming control over a particular geographical territory and the people living in it. In Max Weber’s well-known definition, a state is a ‘body that successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate force in a particular territory’ (Weber 1970:78).…” “…The criterion that comes closest to distinguishing a nation is the state. Unlike the other kinds of communities mentioned before, nations are communities that have a state of their own. That is why the two are joined with a hyphen to form the term nation-state.…” |