"nation-building" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977, Reinhard Bendix, Nation-building and Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing Social Order, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 357:",
          "text": "Although uniquely favored by relatively viable political institutions, India yet shares this uncertainty with a large number of countries for which independence is but a first step on the road to nation-building.",
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          "text": "The mythologizing, carried out over many decades, granted Italian-Americans “a formative role in the nation-building narrative.”",
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        "Unifying the people or peoples within a state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run."
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          "sense": "unifying the people within a state",
          "word": "kansakunnan rakentaminen"
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          "sense": "unifying the people within a state",
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          "word": "netewesazî"
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          "roman": "mellat-sâzi",
          "sense": "unifying the people within a state",
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          "sense": "unifying the people within a state",
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          "word": "budowa narodu"
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          "roman": "nacijetvórennja",
          "sense": "unifying the people within a state",
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          "word": "націєтво́рення"
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          "sense": "unifying the people within a state",
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      "sense": "unifying the people within a state",
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