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> **Title:** Nationalism vs Plurality
> **Tags:** Culture
> **Type:** Reference
> **Reference:** Championing pluralism will make India a vishwaguru, Nitin Pai
National self-determination was a humane response to the depredations of trans-national colonial domination; but it gets messier as you zoom in. The principle creates political incentives for differentiation, extremism and identitarian polarisation