Movements, Intellectuals and the State-Social Policy in Nation-Building

Social Policy in Nation-Building D L Sheth It is primarily through its social, economic and cultural policies that the state seeks to achieve a degree of con- gruity with the society. This it does by striving to create a 'national' society out of a conglomeration of cultural pluralities. A study of the process by which the state in third world countries seeks to achieve the goal of creating a 'national' society.