Based on ethnographic fieldwork around commemorative events in London and analysis of textual materials used during commemorations, this article explores how long-distance nationalists are involved in Bangladeshi state building practices. I demonstrate how long-distance nationalists, people who identify with Bangladesh and its government as their ancestral homeland, and who seek to influence the state, draw on family histories to narrate national pasts and justify dynastic political hierarchies that characterise Bangladeshi politics. Further, by paying attention to the uses of the idioms of kinship in transnational state practices, the article deconstructs thinking about states as natural entities that can only be studied as part of larger abstract political frameworks removed from peoples’ experiences. Narrating shared pasts are central in creating shared sentiments and form a justification for undertaking Bangladeshi state practices from London. Taken together, the materials presented in this article illustrate the need to take the use of kinship idioms in state apparatuses seriously, because they provide key insights into the ways these apparatuses work within and beyond the borders of the nation-state.

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“愿你永远与我们同住，父亲！” 重新思考伦敦的孟加拉国长途民族主义者的国家和亲属关系

基于围绕伦敦纪念活动的民族志实地调查和对纪念活动中使用的文本材料的分析，本文探讨了长途民族主义者如何参与孟加拉国的国家建设实践。我展示了远距离民族主义者，将孟加拉国及其政府视为他们祖先的家园并寻求影响国家的人，如何利用家族历史来叙述国家过去，并为构成孟加拉国政治特征的王朝政治等级制度辩护。此外，通过关注跨国国家实践中亲属关系习语的使用，本文解构了将国家视为自然实体的想法，只能作为从人们的经验中移除的更大抽象政治框架的一部分进行研究。讲述共同的过去是创造共同情感的核心，并构成从伦敦开始孟加拉国国家实践的理由。综上所述，本文提供的材料说明了在国家机器中认真对待亲属习语的必要性，因为它们为这些机器在民族国家边界内外的运作方式提供了关键见解。