Question

Communalism will weaken India's unity .Explain in five points.

Answer 1

Answer:

• Communalism is an act of providing superiority to the particular dominant religion or group of people by suppresing the rights of recessive ones.

• It promotes the sense of inequality amongst the people.

• It leads to the overlapping social division by suppressing the voice of other recessive ones.

• It leads to riots and civil war amongst the two groups or religion.

• Example: In Sri Lanka there was communal government having the domination of Sinhalese, which lead to the suppression of the other linguistic divisions of people which lead to inequality in Srilanka.

Answer 2

Answer:

• when one religion is treated against another by the political class this is called communalism this kind of politics is known as communal politics next
• . it is based on idea that religion is the principal basis of social community

Explanation:

• communalism involves religious prejudice stereotypes of religious communities and belief in the superiority of one's religion over other religion
• communal mind often leads to a quest for political dominance of one's own on religious Unity
• political mobilisation on religious lines