Negotiated Nationhood: Compromise, Contestation, and the New Fault Lines in India’s Nation-Building Project The discourse on India’s nation-building has long revolved around two competing narratives: one that celebrates the republic as an unfolding project of unity-in-diversity and progressive integration, and another that views it as a contingent, negotiated compromise shaped by historical bargains, social pluralism, … Continue reading Comment on the view that India’s nation-building process has been more of a negotiated compromise than a linear progression towards unity. Explore how globalisation and neoliberal reforms have shaped the project of nation-building and created new fault lines in India.