...fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. . . .The nation is imagined as limited because even the...encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has fmite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. No nation imagines itself coterminous...

...the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or ever hear of them ... The nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of them, encompassing perhaps a billion human beings, has finite, if elastic boundaries, beyond which lie other nations ... it is the imagined...

...directly. . . . Homogeneity, literacy, anonymity are the key traits" (Gellner 1983, 138). And, "[. . .] the nation is imagined as limited because even the...elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. No nation imagines itself coterminus with mankind" (Anderson 1983, 16). These ideas are recognizable...

...fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. . . .The nation is imagined as limited because even the...elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. No nation imagines itself coterminous with mankind. . . . [I]t is imagined as a community, because,...

...aristocracy', but 'the lord of X', 'the uncle of the Baronne de Y', or 'a client of the Due de Z'. The nation is imagined as limited because even the...elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. No nation imagines itself coterminous with mankind. The most messianic nationalists do not dream of...

...nations to be imagined communities that are "inherently limited and sovereign."14 That is, they are limited because "even the largest of them, encompassing...finite, if elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations."15 It hardly needs pointing out that this is not a distinguishing characteristic of any particular...

...construction of similarities and differences. 'The nation is imagined as limited', notes Anderson (1991: 7), 'because even the largest of them, encompassing perhaps...elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations.' Anderson's theory of nations as imagined communities deserves our close attention, partly because he...

...of their communion. . . . The nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of [nations], encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings,...elastic, boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. No nation imagines itself coterminous with mankind" (6-7). For Rushdie, then, Pakistan, though "limited"...

...hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion Anderson (1 996: 6).' • 'The nation is imagined as limited because even the...elastic boundaries, beyond which lie other nations (1996: 7).' • 'It is imagined as sovereign because the concept was born in an age in which Enlightenment...

...aristocracy,' but 'the lord of X,' 'the uncle of the Baronne de Y,' or 'a client of the Duc de Z.' The nation is imagined as limited because even the...elastic boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. No nation imagines itself coterminous with mankind. The most messianic nationalists do not dream of...