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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Pluralism and national unity.

  • UPSC 2005, 1997
  • Politics and Society in India

Whether pluralism threatens or sustains national unity depends entirely on which pluralism is meant. Sociology uses the word in two incompatible senses, and India's constitutional experiment rests on the second.

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  • Two meanings of pluralism
  • India is not a plural society in Furnivall's sense
  • How plurality was made to serve unity
  • Conclusion

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