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| To facilitate the smooth functioning of its rule, colonialism introduced a wide array of changes in every sphere, be it legal or cultural, or architectural. Some of these changes were deliberate while some took place in an unintended fashion. For example, we saw how western education was introduced to create Indians who would manage British colonialism. Instead, it led to the growth of nationalist and anti-colonial consciousness. Western colonialism was inextricably connected to the growth of western capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned. If capitalism became the dominant economic system, nation-states became the dominant political form of governing a territory. |
| What could be best sensed about the nation-state that we live in today from the above case? |
The emergence of the nation-State is coupled with Capitalist expansion. They emerged with the rise of nationalist sentiments. A nation-state is a form of a territorial region where its ruler (government or other) has political power within the fixed territorial area. All of the above. |
| All of the above. |
| All of the above constitute a nation-State. |
