There is nothing really new about the modern nation, except the period in which it emerges and the technology and apparatus which its administrative and military elite can command. The nation as such, which they see as a named community of shared culture, history and language in it own homeland, has hardly changed.
What we are witnessing in twentieth century is merely a reason of the national base over the political and economic superstructure. In other word, culture national culture, has reasserted its primacy over political, economics and technology, for culture is the unchanging fabric of society, with its slow rhythms of communication, its deep structures in the human psyche and its all its all encompassing symbolic codes and network of social relations.
Modernity for all its technological and economic progress, has not affected the basic structures of human association and that, on the contrary it is the nation and nationalism that is in each case leads us toward or bring about what we call modernity each nation define that modernity in its own way.
Independence Baluchistan has an economical threshold. Baluchistan could play host to a modern capitalist economy, because it possess a population, territory, natural resources, commercial route to central Asia sufficient for economic viability as well as independence.
Independent Baluchistan will ensure a large market for trade and investments, for labour and commodity production. Baluchistan territory possess it own natural resources in sufficient quantity, it could sustain Baluchistan population that necessary for transfer state to manufacturing and develop area of the world.
Baluchistan could meet economical and political criteria that could furnish stable territorial state and its mass culture has a central role to play in the security and stabilities in geo- political relations. Pakistan to the large scale and Iran to less scale have failed to meet the economical and political viability that could play part in the great movement of history and their incorporation into the globalising market economy and their ideologies marked their imminent demise as states.
Baluch envisage that the independent Baluchistan where every individual member is a citizen and there is assumed equality of citizens in the community. The laws of the nation apply equally to all citizens and in theory there are no intermediate, (Sardar, Nawab, Mullah) mediating between citizen and the state.
Baluch nation is a legal political community as well as a historical culture community. Independence Baluchistan and Baluch nation must be legitimated through a universally applicable ideology, nationalism, as an ideology nationalism holds that the world is divided into nations, each of which has its own character and destiny; that individual’s first loyalty is to his or her nation; that the nation is the source of all political power; that to be free and fulfilled, the individual, must belong to a nation; that each nation must express its genuine nature by being autonomous and that a world of peace and justice can only be built on autonomous nations.
Future independent Baluchistan is part and parcel of a wider international system on which the whole world is divided into separate nation and state. This system came into being in Europe after the treaty of Westphalia in 1648, the First World War, and the Second World War, decolonisation of Africa and Asia from European powers.
Baluch Ethnicity and religion have in fact been two main sectors that have resisted assimilation to the Persian, Shiite Iran. Albeit Persian attempt has not been without success, they have incorporated and assimilated a segment of Baluch population into the Persian religion and culture and language. Fundamentalist religion retains the powerful hold on millions Iranian. In today’s Iran Persian have been able to forge the nation based on Shiite religion and Persian culture and language. Ideology have come and gone, but nationalism and powerful sense of Baluch identity remain constant and strong.
The Baluch have in the past stood and today still stand subordination to the Persian Iran whose elites have ruled the Baluchistan into which Baluch land had been divided by British colonial power and incorporated by the Persian Shiite expansionist, and the Baluch continue to be exploited and oppressed in varying degree. The Baluch national resources and labours are exploited by Persian Shiite for the benefit of the world Shiite community.
Iran is under erosion because its poly-ethnic character has been undermined by the absolute monarch, and fundamentalist religion. Bureaucratically incorporated cannot survive modern epoch.
Iran is not constituted by a single nation which is coextensive with the state. Iran after the long process of consolidation which has involved the construction of the symbolic images of the communities endowed with the Persian language and culture and the creation of symbols and ritual intended to emphasise it’s Shiite character and fixed territorial borders have being forced to respond to the challenges from within. The Baluch included within Iran do not share similar level of Iranian national awareness.
Persian and Some non Persian Shiite Iranian may define themselves as Iranian or referred to as regions but the Baluch are happy to refer as non Iranian and Baluch. Persian nation and today’s Iran is not unique state with fixed territory throughout history, historical Persian had disintegrated.
The idea of Iran is understood as full control over all matter concerning the private life, social, economical political, religious, cultural of the individuals living within its boundaries. The increasing awareness of the Baluch and non Persian group within Iran, international organisation, multinational companies’ social movement and the technical are currently challenging this concept of Persian claim on Baluchistan.
Iran is exposed to pressure from outside; at the same time it has laid itself open to internal strain to acknowledge the existence of territory restricted. The origin of most of these non Persian nations within Iran can be traced back to an era previous to the founding moment of the national states.
The Baluch nationalism re-emerged as a historical, cultural socio-political movement that defends the right of people to decide upon their own political destiny.
Process of Baluch national mobilisation should be tie in with the working definition of the nation as a named human population which shares myths and memories a mass public culture, designated homeland, economic unity, and equal rights and duties for all members, a sense of Baluch past greatness of its heroes and virtues, and its prominent place among the nations.
M. Sarjov
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