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Regional Aspirations
The main features of the Indian approach to diversity are as explainned below :
(i) The different regions and linguistic groups have right to retain their own culture.
(ii) The cultural diversity is not considered as a threat to the nation.
(iii) India had adopted a democratic approach to the question of diversity. It allows the political expressions of regional aspirations. It allows parties and groups to address the people on the basis of their regional identity, aspiration and specific regional problems.
(iv) Regional issues and problems receive adequate attention and accommodation in the policy making process.
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One of Hazarika’s songs ....... dwells on the unity theme; the seven states of north-eastern India become seven sisters born of the same mother .... ‘Meghalaya went own way ...... Arunachal too separated and Mizoram appeared in Assam’s gateway as a groom to marry another daughter,’ ......... The song ends with a determination to keep the unity of the Assamese with other smaller nationalities that are left in the present-day Assam– ‘the Karbis and the Missing brothers and sisters are our dear ones.’ —Sanjib Baruah
(a) Which unity is the poet talking about ?
(b) Why were the States of North-East created separately out of the erstwhile State of Assam ?
(c) Do you think that the same theme of unity could apply to all the regions of India ? Why ?
“Before 1947, Jammu and Kashmir was a Muslim State. Its Sikh ruler, Hari Singh, wanted to merge with Pakistan.”
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