1925]
ON THE FORMATION OF INDIAN NATIONALITY
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the various provincial affinities cannot be made the basis of a denominational nationality. Therefore, in the last analysis the question stands, whether to form an all-India nationhood on the basis of common character and language which of course will be the task of a favourable historic-cultural evolution, or to take the matter as it is and to form a federation of provincial nations. But it must be admitted that the latter will be disastrous;. though the formation of provincial nationalities in many cases cannot be prevented, yet the growth of an all-Indian nationality is advantageous aud some of the bases of its formation being present, conscious attempts must be made to foster it and to realize the desideratum.
Bhupendranath Datta
