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Comment: Cultural and Regional differences are the enduring bases on which politics is played out in India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 10 marks
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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India is usually described as a salad bowl: its languages, faiths, castes and regions keep their form inside a shared political frame instead of dissolving into one culture. Since the 1950s, politics has been fought over language, then over caste, then over regional assertion. The statement is right that these differences are enduring. It needs…

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