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dated December 4, 1957: Concept of nation state

Dr. John Matthai, Vice-Chancellor-designate of the Kerala University, while delivering the first of two lectures under the Rt. Hon. V.S. Srinivasa Sastri Lectureship of the Madras University on “Nationalism and Democracy” in Madras on December 2, said that the decisive factor in the formation of a nation-state was a feeling of common antagonism to another state or group of states. From this were derived two characteristics which had distinguished nation-states, a sense of separateness and a tendency to rely on power for the enforcement of its rights, he said. The development of India into a free nation state has provided the pattern on which other subordinate governments forming part of the British Empire have attained or are in the process of attaining nationhood and self-determination. The idea of fitting countries which have attained nationhood by revolting against a centralised authority into an association of free and independent peoples along with the original rulers is both a novel and an impressive idea.

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