Nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires that ethnic boundaries should not cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries with a given state should not separate the power-holders from the rest. (Ibid., p.1 Clarke & Jones, op. Clarke & Charles Jones, eds., The Rights of Nations: Nations and Nationalism in a Changing World, Cork UP 1999, Introduction, p.7.) It is in reality the consequence of a new model of social organisation, based on deeply internalised education-dependent high cultures, each protected by its own state. (p.48 quoted in Desmond M. ∛ut nationalism is not the awakening of an old, latent, dormant force, though that is how it does indeed present itself. 1993, pp.3-4 - In ∼lassroom / Postcolonial Fiction, infra. See also Ernest Gellner, The Mightier Pen: The Double Standards of Inside-Out Colonialism, in Times Literary Supplement, 19 Feb.
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