Question

What is ethnicity? The problems of ethnicity in India

Answer 1

Ethnicity refers to races peculiar to a nation It also refers to or has common social, cultural, religious and linguistic characteristics. Ethnicity designates a racial or other group within a larger system.

In India with its variety of pluralities in terms of language, race, religion and so on ethnic conflict has become a part of the political scenario. The processes of development and change have generated conditions for ethnic conflict as the fruits of these development processes have been distributed unevenly.