Rogers Brubaker Nationalism

Rogers Brubaker’s Nationalism Reframed sheds light on the reshaping of nationalism in the newly emerged states after the fall of USSR. The foremost category of nationalism expounded by Brubaker is “nationalizing nationalisms”, which can aptly fit in the Pakistani context. Brubaker describes “nationalizing' nationalisms of newly independent (or newly reconfigured) states” as motivated by the claims of formerly marginalized ethnic groups which have since established states (Brubaker 5). Such groups often define themselves in ethnocultural terms, claiming that they together compose a “core nation or nationality” and are “sharply distinguished from the citizenry as a whole” (5). These groups claim that this alleged status entitles them to control