Qaum
Qaum (Arabic: قوم, Urdu: قوم) or Nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, and/or history. In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government (for example the inhabitants of a sovereign state) irrespective of their ethnic make-up.[1][2] The protean word Qawm is of Arabic origin, and is used to refer to any form of solidarity.
Indian people are wrongly referred to as Indian Qaum, as India is founded as Union and has many nationalities. If India is a Qaum then Muslims, Sikhs, Tamils and others cannot claim to be referred to as Qaum, which is a widely used reference for these people.
Pakistani people are known as Pakistani Qaum (Urdu: پاکستانی قوم).
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References
- ↑ "Nation". Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged (11th ed.). Retrieved 20 July 2012. "1. an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state: the Australian nation"
- ↑ Bretton, Henry L. (1986). International relations in the nuclear age: one world, difficult to manage. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-88706-040-4. Retrieved 17 June 2011. "It should be stated at the outset that the term nation has two distinctly different uses. In a legal sense it is synonymous with the state as a whole regardless of the number of different ethnic or national groups–nationalities–contained within it. In that sense, one speaks of nation and means state."