Politics refers to all those activities that are associated with the formation and running of a government, an organization, or a movement. It refers to the dip
Inasmuch as politics is a discipline, an academic branch of knowledge in its own right, it is also dependent on and in turn influences other disciplines, not least those that fall under the radar of social studies, or social sciences, like history, geography, sociology, anthropology, etc.The stream of languages and the study thereof also critically influence politics and political studies. If one were to enumerate all those instances where any particular community of people were directly affected by their linguistic and political identities clashing at the same time, the list would be endless.Politics is thus trans-disciplinary in every sense of the word. It shares an interdependent bond with spheres of information and knowledge belonging to the broader categories of Arts, Social Sciences, Commerce and even Science.History teems with numerous events that are directly related to politics. From the building of clans by the earliest cavemen, the construction of the polis in ancient Greece, the flourish of kingdoms during the reign of royal rulers, to the formation of nation states in modern times, politics has a lot to learn from the past.How a nation sees itself politically in relation to the world and vice versa depends a lot on its natural resources including flora and fauna. Other factors like whether it is a landlocked country, a subcontinent or an island nation determine the availability of international trade routes, which in turn influence the political relations between different nation states.Sociology, simply put, is the study of society. It is the study of social interaction between human beings either as individuals or as representatives of a community, union or organization. Politics comes to the fore when sociologists attempt to understand how one particular association of people dominates or is subjugated by another community.Anthropology incorporates ethnography or the scientific understanding of the formation, adoption and discontinuation of specific human cultures. Anthropological studies with a special thrust on a political perspective to look at extinct or extant cultures also exist as a sub-branch of knowledge.Economics is the field of study devoted to the comprehension and analysis of the supply and demand of financial or material wealth. Despite requiring mathematical computation in the form of statistical interpretation of data, economics has a symbiotic relationship with politics, the latter being conventionally defined as a social science discipline.India’s own history has taught us that the political division of a nation into states on the basis of the languages people speak in different regions is not an isolated event. But while such incidents give the impression that the relation between language and politics is a fraught one which gives birth to controversies, they also highlight the significant relationship that linguistic identity and political representation has.The struggle for political power continues with people from different linguistic backgrounds in different parts of the world like South Asia, the Caribbean and Africa trying to accurately represent themselves in politics. It is their language that enables them to voice their political demands. What we now know as political correctness is a direct product of this global movement.SCIENCEPerhaps the biggest example of science and technology directly influencing politics is the incessant international competition between the world’s most politically powerful nations over nuclear power. Ever since the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, nuclear power has become synonymous with political power.
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