Class 11 Political Science Notes Chapter 7 Nationalism

The nationalism is a sense of an independent nation that is combined together for the achievement of common goal.
The persons of a nation are known citizens of a country to enjoy political and civil rights to obey the laws of country.
An ideal citizen possesses some good qualities, i.e. well educated, aware of one’s own rights and duties having staunch loyalty to the country and with lofty character.
Nationalism refers to the right of self-determination to imply that every nation in the world should exercise a right to determine its destiny in all walks of life without interference of other states in the world.
Every nationalist is supposed to perform some duties, i.e. obedience of law, payment of taxes, cooperation with public servants and loyalty with the state, etc.
State and society are distinguished from each other, i.e. a society has been originated before state and does not enjoy any sovereignty whereas a state has fixed territory and possess sovereignty also.
State and nation enjoy some distinctions, i.e. state has four essential elements but nation has none. Out of these sovereignty and definite territory are essential for a state.
State and government are also distinguished, i.e. government is an essential element of state.
The terms like state, nation and nationality have its own their separate meanings, i.e. state is a political organisation to be either co-existent with nationality.
Where a state is exclusively composed of one nationality, it is a nation state. But where we have a state to consist of more than one nationality or where a nationality is spread over several states, the state and nation do not coincide.
Nation refers to be a self-governing nationality.