Unity in Diversity in India _Nation and Diversity |Part - 3|10th class | English | Klasspm. com

Описание: India, a country of many ethnic groups, is a land of myriad languages, a veritable
babel of tongues and numerous modes of apparel. For the most part, the continental
dimensions of the country account for these variations and diversities. Besides, there are
several religions, sects and beliefs. But there are certain common links and uniting bonds
that people have sought to develop in order to achieve the eminently desirable goal of unity
amidst diversity.
It is true that superficial observers are likely to be bewildered by the astonishing
variety of Indian life. They fail to discover the one in many, the individual, in the aggregate;
the simple in the composite. With them the whole is lost in its parts. What is needed is the
superior interpretation, synthesis
A keen penetrating insight will not fail to recognise the fundamental unity beneath
the manifold variety in India. The diversity itself, far from being a damaging cause of disunity
and weakness, is a fertile source of strength and wealth. Sir Herbert Risely has rightly
observed: "Beneath the manifold diversity of physical and social types, languages, customs
and religions which strike the observer in India, there can still be discerned a certain underlying
uniformity of life from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin."
From his long and first-hand experience in India, Vincent A. Smith says that the
civilisation of India "has many features which differentiate it from that of the other regions
of the world, while they are common to the whole country in degree sufficient to justify its
treatment as a unity in the history of human, social and intellectual development."
Even the early Indian history unmistakably shows that the political consciousness of
the people has from the very early times, grasped the whole of India as a unit and assimilated
the entire area as the theatre of its activities. India is not a mere geographical expression,
nor is it a mere collection of separate peoples, traditions and conventions. India is much
more than this. The best proof lies in the fact that Indian history has quickened into life