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Can religion form a sufficient basis of forming cultural identity in India? Comment.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Religion and Society in India

Religion is the most visible marker of cultural identity in India and the one the state most explicitly recognises — in personal law, in the minority educational right, in the census itself. It is nonetheless not sufficient, because caste, region, language, class and gender cut through every religious community. Religion is necessary to any account…

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