Who has given the concept of ‘imagined community’ ?
Benedict Anderson
The concept of the nation as an ‘imagined community’ was given by Benedict Anderson in his 1983 book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
Anderson argued that a nation is imagined because its members will never meet most of their fellow members, yet each holds an image of their communion. It is imagined as limited, sovereign and a community of deep comradeship. He linked the rise of nationalism to print capitalism, newspapers and novels in vernacular languages, which let people think of themselves as part of a shared national public.
Ernest Gellner explained nationalism as a product of industrial society and mass education in Nations and Nationalism. Anthony D. Smith stressed the ethnic roots of nations in his ethno-symbolist approach. Eric Hobsbawm, with Terence Ranger, developed the idea of ‘invented traditions’. Each is a major theorist of nationalism, but not the author of this concept.
Benedict Anderson option is correct.
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