Consider the following statements:Statement I: A country that adopts…

NCERT (2026-27): “Communities, Nations and Nation-States …
Policies of integration seek to assert a single national identity by attempting to eliminate ethnonational and cultural differences from the public and political arena, while allowing them in the private domain. Both sets of policies assume a singular national identity. Assimilationist and integrationist strategies try to establish singular national identities through various interventions like: Ø Centralising all power to forums where the dominant group constitutes a majority, and eliminating the autonomy of local or minority groups; Ø Imposing a unified legal and judicial system based on the dominant group’s traditions and abolishing alternative systems used by other groups; Ø Adopting the dominant group’s language as the only official ‘national’ language and making its use mandatory in all public institutions; Ø Promotion of the dominant group’s language and culture through national institutions”