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Analyse the role of communalism in undermining democracy in India.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 15 marks
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Communalism is the ideology that the followers of a religion form a community with common secular — political, economic and social — interests, distinct from and finally opposed to those of another such community. Bipan Chandra (Communalism in Modern India, 1984) traced it through three stages and insisted it is a modern political phenomenon, not…

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  • How it corrodes democracy
  • Why it persists
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