Essays on Nation

Who we are is shaped by where we are from. This is a common thread in the human experience; our backgrounds give way to our personalities. But what happens when a person disagrees with the confines of their nation upon their identity? The English Patient...

  Native Americans were adapted by American colonial expansion from the year 1785 to the year of 1829. They experienced the lack of beliefs, property, and underwayed mending made by whites to all throughout improve the Native Americans that were terribly affected them. Most of...

India. Bharat. Hindustan. The 29 constituents of India make it what we know it as, an Economically Developing, Socially Secular nation on the road to success. But who really has the power? And what really holds them together? The phrase “First and the most essential...

This statement caused an upheaval, because if nationhood requires people living in one particular geographical boundary to follow one culture, speak one language, have one faith, then claiming nationhood for India was not a very smart thing to ask for. However this vision of nationhood...

A nation is a collection of people occupying a particular portion of the earth’s surface, a territory they perceive as their homeland by right and who have a strong sense of unity based on similar historical experiences and a set of shared values, beliefs and...

Man is a social animal but with a tendency to divide into smaller social groups, resulting in the way we exist today defined by national boundaries. Nation states, in the modern sense, came into being due to a variety of reasons, primarily due to shared...

This proposal examines the production of visually striking/brilliant palatial houses built by the chettiars during the colonial era between 1860 and 1930 as a result of industrial capitalism. I primarily look upon the elaborately painted ornamental houses that bureaucrats as a statement of social achievement,...

Behind the retreating Englishman, on the new nation’s flag is poised a stylized lion, all curving flank and ornate muscle, a long, cruel sword gripped in its front paw. It is the ancient symbol of the Sinhala, who believe that they are descended from the...

The people living in the United States of America whether they are immigrant or natural born citizen, all are considering an American. I am an immigrant from India to United States. My life would always go two ways. When I am at work, I felt...

In 1787 America’s Founding Fathers created a document which had infinite potential, the Constitution; even now, the Constitution and its promises are not fulfilled. As American citizens, we cannot merely mind our own business and blindly follow the laws set in place by the government....