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cord-034566-rfncgtnf	Sarukkai, Sundar	Self-reliant India: self of a nation or a national self?	2020-11-02		.txt	text/plain	5447	262	61	Then I try and attempt to understand why the notion of the self (which is so much related to the individual) is invoked in the context of the nation. As I also mentioned above, these new examples of self-reliance came in response to the prior situation of our society functioning largely as a 'service society' as well as the deeply social nature of individual lives in places like India. (It is important not to conflate the outsider and the other in this context.) The idea of self-rule is an essential component of any notion of the nation since the nation, by definition, gets defined with respect to the insider-outsider dichotomy. Gandhi's understanding of self-rule illustrates the need for invoking the idea of self in the context of the nation. The difference between these formulations is quite stark and impacts the way we understand self-reliance in the context of the nation.	./cache/cord-034566-rfncgtnf.txt	./txt/cord-034566-rfncgtnf.txt