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Critically evaluate the role of religion and ethnicity in Indian politics since the First General Elections in 1952.

  • UPSC 1990
  • Religion and Society in India

The republic that went to the polls in 1952 expected religion, language and caste to lose political weight as development advanced. They were not dissolved but reorganised. The question is therefore not whether ascriptive identity matters, but at what scale it is aggregated, and by whom.

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  • Has religion's salience risen, or changed form?
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