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Write short note : Religion and national integration in India.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Religion and Society in India

India integrated by conceding, not by suppressing: the States Reorganisation Act of 1956 redrew the map along language after a mass agitation, and the union grew stronger for it. Rajni Kothari read this as the Indian formula — integration through the accommodation and brokerage of competing groups rather than their dissolution. National integration here therefore…

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  • What integration has meant in India
  • Religion as integrator
  • Religion as disintegrator
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