The Challenges of Cultural Diversity
Chapter 6
1. What is meant by cultural diversity? Why is India considered to be a very diverse country?
2. What is community identity and how is it formed?
3. Why is it difficult to define the nation? How are nation and state related in modern society?
4. Why are states often suspicious of cultural diversity?
5. What is regionalism? What factors is it usually based on?
6. In your opinion, has the linguistic reorganisation of states helped or harmed India?
7. What is a ‘minority’? Why do minorities need protection from the state?
8. What is communalism?
9. What are the different senses in which ‘secularism’ has been understood in India?
10. What is the relevance of civil society organisations today?
Questions Type: Himashree Bora.
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