'Nation' in E V Ramasamy's Political Discourse M S S Pandian Departing from the conception which claims the 'nationalisation of the past as a universal given of nations, this article argues that it has been possible at least in certain cases to imagine nations as disengaged from the past. To illustrate such a possibility the concept of 'nation' as propagated by E V Ramasamy, who denied its origin in classical Indian/Tamil past and envisaged it fully in the future, is analysed.