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Write short note : Religious and ethnic conflict in India.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Religion and Society in India

Conflict in India does not take one form. A communal riot in a north Indian town, a nativist agitation over jobs, a dispute over a shrine and an insurgency in a hill district run on different mechanisms. Indian sociology's achievement is to have stopped treating them as one eruption of "ancient hatreds" and specified the…

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  • A typology of conflict in India
  • Why violence occurs where it does
  • The current record
  • Conclusion

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