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The Inadvertence of Benedict Anderson: Engaging Imagined Communities

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Radhika Desai
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Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism London: Verso, 2006, second revised edition (first published 1983, revised edition, 1991). xv + 240 pp. ISBN 9781844670864

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 0 , March 2009 , e1
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