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How big a role does identity play in determining political participation in the developing countries? Discuss your answer with suitable illustrations.

  • UPSC 2018
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  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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Identity politics is political action organised around ascriptive or cultural belonging (caste, ethnicity, religion, language, region), usually as a project to recover a group's standing from exclusion and denigration. In developing societies identity shapes participation more than in advanced ones, for structural rather than cultural reasons. Its role is major, but not determining.

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