Question

why is india called a plural society?​

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About a century ago, John Strachey, a well-informed British Awriter made a judgment about India that can serve as a starting for a discussion of India as a pluralistic society. "This is the first and most essential thing to learn about India," he said, "that there is not, and never was an India, or even any country of India, possessing, according to European ideas, any sort of unity, physical, political, social, or religious." His meaning was clear: not only had there been no Indian nation in the past, there would be none in the future. But the author did qualify his dogmatism a little: "By European standards," he said, "there had never been an India." For "European" one can read "British;" and of course by 19th century British understanding of what constituted a nation, he was probably right. Quite clearly, India possessed none of the qualities of nationality that seemed characteristic of those classic examples of nationhood, England and France. Common language, a proudly shared historic experience, common religious traditions, internal political unity, racial homogeneity, a widely shared cultural ex perience, all of these were conspicuously lacking in India. Through the years, Strachey's denial of nationhood to India has been echoed in one form or another, and since 1947, a host of American and European writers have made a living, and a generation of academics have secured tenure, by documenting with zealous energy the reasons why India cannot endure as a united country. Indians themselves have been much exercised by the danger inherent to their nation in what they call "fissiparous tendencies," those features of the society which seem to threaten national unity.Those divisive forces are well-known. Instead of a common language, there are at least thirteen major languages and dozens of minor ones. There are age-old divisions of society by caste and class. There are a welter of religions, with representations of every conceivable variety of religious experience, but above all with the deep divisions occasioned by the presence of a massive Muslim minority in the midst of a Hindu majority,