Identify the following concepts and arrange them in order (of formation first to last):
(A) State-Nation
(B) Community
(C) Nation-state
(D) Nation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (B), (D), (C), (A)
(B) Community — first. Communities, based on birth and belonging, are the building blocks out of which a nation is formed.
(D) Nation — second. A nation is a sort of large-scale community, a ‘community of communities’, whose members share the desire to be part of the same political collectivity.
(C) Nation-state — third. The nation’s desire for political unity usually expresses itself as the aspiration to form a state; a nation that has its own state is a nation-state.
(A) State-Nation — last. The state-nation is put forward as an alternative to the nation-state: various ‘nations’, be they ethnic, religious, linguistic or indigenous identities, co-exist peacefully and cooperatively in a single state polity.
Note: NCERT does not give these four as a sequence; the order is worked out from its lines on community, nation, nation-state and state-nation, as explained above.
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.…”
Box 6.2 (NCERT 2025-26) |
