Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
How are the issues of ethnicity and nationalism related? Discuss in the context of the emergence of ethnonationalism in India.
- UPSC 2011
- Religion and Society in India
Within a decade of independence India redrew its internal map on language, and has conceded territory to cultural claims ever since — states, autonomous councils, Article 371 exceptions, accords. That record is the Indian answer: ethnicity supplies the felt community, nationalism converts it into a claim on the state, and Indian federalism has spent seventy…
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- The relation, stated from India
- The Indian record of ethnonationalism
- Accommodation: has it contained or fed the problem?
- Conclusion
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