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Home help lifted nation (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

india

'nation' is the definition.
(India is an example)

'home help lifted' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'help' becomes 'aid' ('aid' can be a synonym of 'help').
'lifted' is a reversal indicator (going up in down clue).
'aid' reversed gives 'dia'.
'in'+'dia'='INDIA'

(Other definitions for india that I've seen before include "Land in Asia" , "Second most populous country in the world" , "Land of Bombay and Calcutta" , "New Delhi is its capital" , "Place of Kipling's birth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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