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Discuss the growth of religious sects in India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Religion and Society in India

India's sectarian field is crowded and still expanding — medieval panths, nineteenth-century reform bodies and a contemporary layer of deras and guru organisations with followings in lakhs. The growth is best read not as revival but as a response to caste humiliation, dislocation and the withdrawal of the state.

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