Barred pilgrimages, not ethnic pluralism, fractured national community
Evidence
I say ‘can’ because there are obviously plenty of cases where the possibility has been, and is being, rejected. In such cases, for example Old Pakistan, the explanation is not ethno-cultural pluralism, but barred pilgrimages. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 529
Categorization
- XREF: Lines up with how imagined communities are constituted and dissolved; the pilgrimage metaphor extends Anderson’s earlier ‘pilgrim-queues’ of colonial functionaries. — connects to: An imagined community only solidifies when educational and administrative pilgrimages coincide — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 472; Official nationalism redirected resentment onto imported ethnic minorities — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 382; Clan chauvinism in Mogadishu treated non-clan residents as foreigners. (+1 more)
- QUESTION: Worth chasing how religious identity defined the pilgrimage route that divided East from West Pakistan — a concrete mechanism for national fracture.
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Broader Connections
- Official nationalism redirected resentment onto imported ethnic minorities
#exemplifies(0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 382 - Clan chauvinism in Mogadishu treated non-clan residents as foreigners.
#contradicts(0.82) - Resurgent nationalism fuses invented tradition with narcissistic minor-difference resentment.
#corroborates(0.78)