GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -An imagined community is a concept developed by Benedict Anderson in his 1983 book Imagined Communities to analyze nationalism. Anderson depicts a nation as a socially-constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of a group.

Detailed explanation-2: -Benedict Anderson is one of the most important theorists of modern nationalism. Nationalism, argues Anderson, is a story of national origins that creates imagined community amongst the citizens of the modern state. Here, he explains the sense in which the nation is an ‘imagined community’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Anderson defines “the nation” as an “imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (Imagined 7). The nation is: Imagined because “members . . . will never know most of their fellow members . . . yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion” (6).

Detailed explanation-4: -In Imagined Communities (1983) Anderson argues that the nation is an imagined political community that is inherently limited in scope and sovereign in nature.

Detailed explanation-5: -Anderson further defined this imagined community as limited and sovereign: limited, because even the largest nations recognize some boundaries and the existence of other nations beyond them; sovereign, because the nation replaced traditional kinship ties as the foundation of the state.