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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Communal tensions in India.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Religion and Society in India

Communal tension in India is not friction between faiths. It is the working of an ideology that tells people sharing a religion that they therefore share secular interests, and that those interests are threatened by another community. Read as ancient hostility, it loses both its modernity and its authorship.

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  • Bipan Chandra's three stages
  • What communalism is not
  • T. K. Oommen's six dimensions
  • The Indian pattern and its present form
  • Conclusion

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