The 'land of the future': the Jong Sumatranen Bond (1917-1930) and its image of the nation

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The Jong Sumatranen Bond (JSB), a student organization in Sumatra between 1917 and 1930, worked to create a nation based on unity in cultural diversity through promoting the Malay language and Sumatran history. JSB's efforts failed as support for an Indonesian unity grew but JSB was successful in preparing intelligent Sumatran students for mature opinion forming and political participation. Some of its members became prominent in Indonesian society and never forgot their Sumatran roots even without having succeeded in creating a nation.

Analysis, Political aspects, Education, Sumatra, Nationalism, Nationalism and education

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The Meiji Earthquake: Nature, nation, and the ambiguities of catastrophe

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The Meiji Earthquake, Japan's first truly national nature catastrophe, brings about sudden breaches not only in the normality of social organization and the political control, but in the normality of nature as well. This catastrophe during the Meiji period invites historians to re-examine the uncritically acceptance of foreign knowledge, especially of the scientific and technical kind and whether non-western political orders were strengthened or were opened to unexpected new weaknesses.

Japan, History, Earthquake damage, Ecology and history, Japanese history, 1868-1912 (Meiji period), Environmental history

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Sanskrit for the nation

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The nationalization of a language, such as Sanskrit in India, does not only involve the standardization of its linguistic forms, but also a sanitization of cultural notions about the language. The choice of Sanskrit as India's national language was an attempt to enable the country to function as a nation. Sanskrit served for centuries as the language of the elite.

India, Social aspects, Language and languages, Language policy, Sanskrit language

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