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Explain the issues relating to ethnicity and subethnicity.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

An ethnic group is defined less by the culture it carries than by the boundary it maintains. Once that is granted, subethnicity ceases to be a curiosity: every ethnic category contains smaller ones, and which level counts as "the" identity depends on whom the group competes with.

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  • What ethnicity is: three positions
  • Subethnicity: identity is nested and situational
  • The Indian issues
  • Conclusion

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