The Sign of Unity in Diversity in Indian Society (Text in Persian)

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Hojatollah Darvishpour ¹

1 - ([e-mail]) . استادیار و عضو هیأت علمی گروه علوم سیاسی و معارف اسلامی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد ایذه

Received: 2011-06-14 Accepted : 2011-10-15 Published : 2011-09-01

Keywords: culture, Religion, Democracy, ethnicity, nationalism, Constitution, Unity, Indian society, secularism, Federalism,

Abstract :

The aim of the present article is to study unity in diversity in India. The assumption of the article is that India is a country with diversity. The article examines the unique aspect of diversity in Indian society. These aspects of diversity in Indian society are religion، ethnicity، language etc. The underlying hypothesis is that despite this diversity India is a united entity. In this regard the uniting factors are enumerated and examined also in this direction the elementary and secondary uniting principles and foundations are discussed and their roles in uniting the Indian society are underlined. In the third part the factors that threaten the unity of Indian society are discussed. These factors are Hindu nationalism، religious conflicts، regionalism، state-centre conflicts; and the central government is trying to control them. The finding of the study shows that despite the presence of certain factors which threaten the unity of India، the unity in diversity is prevailing. In other words notwithstanding diversities، the unity is the dominating aspect of Indian society