Question

Write a short note on the following:

Diversity in India

Answer 1

1. India is a land of “Unity in diversity.” The sources of diversity in India may be traced through a variety of ways, the most obvious being the ethnic origins, religions, castes, tribes, languages, social customs, cultural and sub-cultural beliefs, political philosophies and ideologies, geographical variations etc.
2. Unity implies oneness or a sense of ‘we-feeling’; it holds tightly together various relationships and belief systems of diverse ethnic communities or institutions into some form of acceptable unity, through bonds of contrived structures, norms and values. 
3. The term “Unity in diversity” refers to the state of togetherness or oneness in spite of immense diversity. “Unity in diversity” is based on the concept where the individual or social differences in physical attributes, caste, gender, creed, cultural and religious practices, etc. are not looked upon as conflicting.