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What are the major concerns of ethnic identity and religious identity in India?

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  • Religion and Society in India

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The Constitution treats these as two orders of claim: the Sixth Schedule, Scheduled Tribe status and Article 371 answer descent and territory; Articles 25 to 30 and personal law answer faith. T. K. Oommen frames it best — a nation fuses territory and culture, an ethnie is one in which that fusion is broken, the…

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  • Two identities, two logics
  • Concerns of ethnic identity
  • Concerns of religious identity
  • Where the two fuse
  • Conclusion
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