...common, that is, an identity. This confident sense of commonality derived, he thought, primarily from the "convergence of capitalism and print technology on the fatal diversity of human language." 19 Anderson suggested that both newspaper and novel created a fictive reality for their readers characterized...

...Europe, first in Latin and then in more local vernaculars, and the emerging “possibility of a new imagined community, which in its basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation.” 3 Similarly, Ernest Gellner maintains that the spread of industrial social organization creates a certain...

...ever more diverse groups of individuals. In Anderson's words (1991:46; see also Loomba, 1998:186), "the convergence of capitalism and print technology...basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation". As Anderson makes clear, language is an integral part of modernity. A major challenge thus posed by...

...links producers with consumers of writings that invoke national identity. Anderson has observed that 'the convergence of capitalism and print technology...basic morphology set the stage for the modern nation.' 25 If the very concepts of nation and of national identity are historically situated, contingent on...