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Write short notes with a sociological perspective on the following in about 150 words : Gandhi’s efforts on communal harmony.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Politics and Society in India

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi treated communal harmony not as a policy of tolerance managed by the state but as a moral and ritual practice to be performed in public. His method was to place his own body between communities — which makes it sociologically distinctive and, in the end, difficult to institutionalise.

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  • The conception: sarva dharma sambhava
  • The practice
  • A sociological reading
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