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Examine the concept of ‘Cultural Pluralism’ in the context of India’s Unity in Diversity.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Cultural pluralism, coined by Horace Kallen ("Democracy versus the Melting Pot", 1915; Culture and Democracy in the United States, 1924), holds that distinct cultural groups may keep their identities while sharing one political community — the opposite of the melting pot. India's "unity in diversity" is the strongest claim any society makes for that proposition,…

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