The question “Is it possible to define a nation” is a broad and debatable question. In my opinion it is possible to define a nation to a great extent. As E.Hobsbawn states there is no universal criteria required, “any sufficiently large body of people whose members regard themselves as members of a nation will be treated as such”. I agree with this statement, a nation is just not a geographic concept, it is also a statement of unity by a certain group of people and they should be respected as a nation.

Bendict Anderson’s definition of a nation is “it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign”. According to Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities 1991) it is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, or even hear of them. The nation is imagined as limited because even the largest of them encompassing perhaps a billion living human beings, has finite, if elastic boundaries, beyond which lie other nations. It is imagined as sovereign because the concept was born in an age in which enlightment and revolution were dest

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