Deconstructing Naga Nation

Abstract

The study is contained from the framework of the contemporary, global, inter-utilisation of newlinenation, state and nation-state in politics and political institutions and studies, and the newlinesubsequent impact in the methodology of nationalism. Nation, state and nation-state are newlinedifferent entities but are interpreted as synonym for political purposes of assertion, newlinedomination and expansion, which is the characteristic of the contemporary modern geo- newlinepolitical order, conflicts and existences. Having its architectural origin in the Treaty of newlineWestphalia (1648), this modern political institutional system is static in nature and newlineconditioned to be homogeneous thereby creating a complex dual system, mainstream and newlineothers, in culture, existence and identity over power, dominance and control, resulting in newlinemulti-dimensional contestations and resistances. The institutions of nationalism require an newlinealternative approach inclusive, and in acknowledgement, of primordial elements newlinecontemporary spatial continuance; such alternative path is observed in the emergence of newlinefourth world nations in response and resistance, and reconciliation, to the institutional and newlinecultural components of political globalisation and global nationalism. However, the polity newlinecomponents remain so embedded in institutions of nationalism that it is a challenge to engage newlinein an alternative approach where the ghost of state continues to haunt the construction of newlinecultural continuity, identity and sovereignty. Thus, there is political dilemma while engaging newlinein the subject of nation which is no longer an objective spatial entity but a cosmopolitan of newlineinterests and conflicts. newlineConceptualisation of the rationale and debate is initiated with the engagement on issues of newlineand within Naga s nation identity. The general presentation of Naga has, for, long been the newlineromanticised image, limiting within the boundaries of anthropology s domain and subsequent newlinelegacies that somehow could not comprehend the Nagas contemporary political discourse as newlinea nation. The natio