Showing posts with label Modern India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern India. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 June 2013

Factors that contributed to the unity of India

This is part of the series in Modern Indian History that is added to GS I in the new syllabus.

India as a young nation after Independence had to strive for the Unity of India. The global Intellegentsia was skeptical of the survival of India as the divisive forces and the factors that contribute to fragmentation were largeand they outnumbered the reasons and factors of India's unity and existence. Yet India has withstood the test of time against all odds and is considered by  historians and researchers of democracy as an exception as India was reeling under poverty, communal-ism, caste-ism, underdevelopment, linguistic and regional exclusiveness, Inequality etc. We will be considering the factors that unite India in this article.