Nationalism and Regionalism in India: the Case of Orissa

This study addresses the issues of nationalism and regionalism in the empirical situation of Orissa within the multicultural context of India. By focusing on the Oriya situation the study basically highlights two major forms of conflictregional nationalism and regionalism in multicultural and/or multinational countries such as India. To differentiate these two forms of conflict the study, as a point of departure, makes a distinction between political nationalism and cultural nationalism.The former is associated with nationalism at the macronational level and the latter with nationalism at the regional level in multicultural/multinational context.