How does communalism plays a devisive role in inda?
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From our childhood, we Indians are taught that India is a role model for the entire world for mutual co-existence and “unity in diversity”. The intent behind this is to condition minds of young Indians to adopt a collaborative and cooperative mindset with the diverse sets of people we interact with. Diversity in India arises not just our of religion, but also due to race, geography, language, caste, affluence, occupation and a few more factors. This diversity, to me, is the other face of communalism in India.
Communalism is most frequently criticized for its divisive nature. A set of people pitched against another set of people. It divides us in several ways:
Hindus, Muslims, Christians against each other.
Hindi speaking people against people speaking Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada.
Rivalry between Tamils, Kannadas and Malayalis.
Kshatriyas, Dalits, Jats, Gurjars, Brahmins, Patels, Baniyas, Shias, Sunnis and Tribals.
Aryans, Dravidians and the so-called Mongoloids.
Labourers and manufacturers.
What we see above are some of the various divisive lines that unite a set of people against another set of people united by an opposing ideology.
And that brings me to the principle of duality. Nothing is pure evil. Nothing is pure good. So, while communalism might appear divisive, it has a tendency to unite people as well.
Communalism, perhaps set in when people felt the need to unite so that they can either fight oppressors or wage an offensive on a common enemy. The idea of communalism starts from the concept of family. Most of us have heard the story of a dying father teaching his sons that if you stay united as a bundle of sticks rather than individual sticks, you’d be a much stronger force to reckon. That to me is the first step of communalism.
After the family, we start building a sense of common purpose within our class, then our house in the school, then our school. As we grow up, we tend to ‘communalize’ with our residential neighborhood, our caste, our religion, our village/town/city, our state and our nation. If we had other planets competing with us, we humans might have communalized as humans of earth more effectively. All these communities play a positive role of imparting a sense of togetherness and learning to work with other humans. Some of the communities have actually benefited by coming together and helping their fellow members socially, politically or economically. That’s the good part of communalism.
The sad part, the divisive part is the other side of the same coin. Fundamentally, the basis of creating communities lies in being competitive with other communities. Even if one community is more powerful than the other, the roles of the oppressor and the suppressor may keep changing from time to time and from place to place. Once ignited, this divisive fire doesn’t easily die down.
In most cases, there are vested interests who have learnt to benefit out of differences and hatred among communities and keep fueling these fires. Unfortunately, not all humans have the maturity to read through this or to control mutual differences from translating into hatred. There are visible outcomes of communal behavior - rioting, lynching, raping, murdering, etc. And there are non-violent too - elitism, partialism, discrimination, etc.
Over a period of time, you can neither figure out who started the fire, nor is it relevant anymore.
The fire of communalism…
We didn’t start it, it was always burning since the world's been turning..
No, you and me didn't light it, we tried to fight it, but it left us all divided…
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