Question

Understanding Diversity
✔ Q.1. Draw up a list of the different festivals celebrated in your locality. Which of these celebrations are shared by members of different regional and religious communities?
✔ Q.2. What do you think living in India with its rich heritage of diversity adds to your life?
✔ Q.3. Do you think the term "unity in diversity" is an appropriate term to describe India? What do you think Nehru is trying to say about Indian unity in the sentence quoted above from his book The Discovery of India?
✔ Q.4. Underline the line in the poem sung after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which according to you, reflects India's essential unity.
✔ Q.5. Choose another region in India and do a similar study of the historical and geographical factors that influence the diversity found there. Are these historical and geographical factors connected to each other? How?​

Answer 1

( 1 )Religions- i) Hindu, ii)Muslim , iii) Christians , iv)Shik . Different from of prayer- i)pooja, meditation,ii) Namaj, iii) prayer, meditation, iv) ardas,matha tek . Worship of different Gods- i) Shiva, Durga, Vishnu, Laxmi, Ganesh ii) Allah, iii) Jesus, Mother Mary, iv) Guru Nanak.Sacred sites- i) Varanasi, Mathura ii) Mecca Madina Ajmer Nizamuddin ( Delhi) iii) Church, Jerusalem, Rome, iv) Golden temple, Amritsar. .Different kinds of religious music or singing - i) bhajan,kirtan.ii) quwwali ajan iii) holy song, hymns Carol's .iv) shabad kirtan