Pakistan, Feb. 19 -- Historians mark the 19th century as the era of 'nationalisms' because it witnessed the emergence of the nation-state, organized around the themes of consolidation of new political identities and territories that signified the formation of geographically-defined markets and currencies. Richard Griggs (1992) states that 'France's claim to being a nation, or even a nation-state, was pre-Orwellian double speak'. For Griggs, the now popular, though erroneous, formula of nation-state was initiated when Louis XVI began retitling the royal departments of France. The distinction between a state which binds its citizens by legal and military means, and a nation which is the product of cultural evolution as a region, was not obscu...