National Integration: Hinderances and Remedies

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Abu Shama Ahmed - Abstracts: India is a big country where religiously different people like Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Parsis, Sikhs, and others live together. Their languages, traditions and customs are quite different. Hindu religion is the oldest in India. It is union of Vedic religion Sanatan dharma, Jainism, Budhism and various other smaller castes and creeds. The same state of affairs is of other religions also. This leads us to conclude that India is a wonderland of diversities and distinctions. But it must be borne in mind that inspite of all these diversities; there lies an underlying sense of unity. All Indians have a sense of oneness and unity. They express this fundamental sense of oneness, unity and belongingness in all spheres of thinking and behavior. Sir Jadu Nath Sarcar and Herbert Rizley speak very high of this unity in diversity. In short, as flowers in a bunch are of different form, colour, size and smell, yet they all combine to make that that bunch one whole, similarly all Indians inspite of their differences are essentially one. They feel that they belong to the same cultural stream of Indian life. National Integration forms a vitally important part of the process of Nation-building. It stands for the integration of the people of the state into an emotionally and psychologically integrated team, a nation committed to secure the objective of socio-economic development of the whole society. Without a high level of national integration the march towards ...