Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: [ on 10:47 AM 2/23/2006 ]
> Leaving aside for the moment the issue of "Why would anyone want
> to keep alive the idea of the nation state", it would seem to be
> inarguable that there *do* exist various parties who *do* want
> to do precisely this.
Yes, I guess it's pretty convenient for those people that history
has a political agenda that supports their cause.
The point of the comment was that "history" isn't a monolithic entity.
Udhay
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