ETHNIC NATIONALISM: THE NEED TO REVISIT TAGORE'S VIEW ON NATIONALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

This paper has been written by keeping three objectives in mind to justify the title of this paper, the very first objective of this paper is to reveal the destructive nature of ethnicity by unearthing historical dimensions and lamenting on the present global phenomenon. The second, objective is to show, a complex affinity of ethnicity with nationalism and the ideological construction of ethnic nationalism with the views of Mariategui, Lawson, Foucault, Ernest Gellner, Anderson, and Hobsbawm. The last, objective is how to get emancipation from the ideological construction of nationalism with the help of cosmopolitan figure Rabindranath Tagore.