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How far do regional groupings pose a threat to the stability of Indian political system?

  • UPSC 1994
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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"Regional groupings" covers three actors: regional parties, territorial movements for autonomy or statehood, and blocs of states bargaining with the Union. Samuel P. Huntington (Political Order in Changing Societies, 1968) measured stability not by the absence of conflict but by the capacity of institutions to absorb rising participation. On that test, regional groupings threaten India's…

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