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‘Community and Caste still threaten social harmony and political peace in India.’ Discuss.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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The statement reflects 1990–91, when the Mandal Commission report provoked self-immolations and the Rath Yatra left a trail of riots. "Community" here means religious community — communalism in Bipan Chandra's sense, the belief that a person's secular interests follow from religious identity. Three decades on, the claim holds in qualified form: both threaten peace when…

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  • How caste threatens social harmony
  • How community threatens political peace
  • The counter-view: caste and community also integrate
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