Unity In Diversity In India

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Essay on unity in diversity in India India's cultural history is stretched over several millennia. A subtle but strong thread of continuity has made India the "epitome of the world." The diversity of geography, race, religion, language and regional traditions have never impeded its progress. The reason for this is that Indian culture has always been synthetic in spirit. Apart from self-knowledge, tolerance, familial integration and other aspects of Indian culture, its adaptability has helped Indian culture to be universal in character. Indian culture has, thus, been a composite one. A composite culture is that which successfully absorbs and harmonizes the impact of various ways of life and traits of civilization. Sir Herbert Risley aptly comments, "Beneath the manifold diversity of physical and social type, language, custom and religion which strikes the observer in India, there can still be discerned a certain underlying uniformity of life from the Himalayas to Cape Cameroun." Geographical Unity : From 'Bharatavarsha' to 'Bharatmata' and 'Vandemataram' singnifies a deep geographical sentiment of unity. The national anthem eulogizes various parts of the country and highlights the integral wholeness of India. The holy rivers (sapta sindhu) add flavour to it. Political Unity: Various 'Chakravartin' and 'Rajadhiraja' who ruled India, have come and gone. Each regarded the unity of the entire country under him as his paramount political goal. Also, one of the very few good aspects of the British rule in India was the growth of a general national consciousness. Centralization of federal authority in the hands of the Mughals and the British gave India a unitary set-up .The Constitution of India also speaks of "We the people of India" and of "India that is Bharat shall be a union of states." Political unity is a reality, not a figment of imagination. Religious
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