Tamils - a Trans State Nation..

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C 

NATIONS & NATIONALISM

Empire and  Ethnicity

Professor John Darwin

Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
15th Annual Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture
at London School of Economics, 30 March 2008

[see also Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) 19th Annual Conference,“Nationalism and Globalisation”, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 31st March - 2nd April 2009]