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Challenges Of Nation Building

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Read the given passage carefully and answer the following questions :

Above all, the linguistic states underlined the acceptance of the principle of diversity. When we say that India adopted democracy, it does not simply mean that India embraced a democratic constitution, nor does it merely mean that India adopted the format of elections. The choice was larger than that. It was a choice in favour of recognising and accepting the existence of differences which could at times be oppositional. Democracy, in other words, was associated with plurality of ideas and ways of life.

(i) What is meant by ‘linguistic states’ ?

(ii) Why were linguistic states formed in India ? Explain any two reasons.

(iii) How is democracy in India associated with plurality of ideas and ways of life ?

Solution

(i) Linguistic states are those created on the basis of language.

 (ii) (a) It was hoped that if the demands for separate states on linguistic basis are accepted, the threat of division and separation would be reduced.

 (b) Accommodation of regional demands and the formation of Linguistic states were seen as more democratic.
 (iii) India is country with different religions and cultures. In India principle of diversity is an accepted norms.

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Read the following passage and answer the questions below:

“In the history of nation-building only the Soviet experiment bears comparison with the Indian. There too, a sense of unity had to be forged between many diverse ethnic groups, religious, linguistic communities and social classes. The scale – geographic as well as demographic – was comparably massive. The raw material the state had to work with was equally unpropitious : a people divided by faith and driven by debt and disease. ”

—Ramachandra Guha

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