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Describe the socio-economic factors responsible for communal tensions in India. What suggestions will you give to control them?

  • UPSC 2003
  • Religion and Society in India

Communal tension in India tracks the local balance sheet more closely than religious devotion. Asghar Ali Engineer, who investigated riot after riot on the ground, put it flatly: the causes of communalism are secular — competition for shares in trade, jobs and political power. Violence clusters where an upwardly mobile minority is displacing incumbents and…

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  • Economic mobility as the trigger
  • The urban structure of tension
  • What can be done
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