India: A Symbol of Unity in Diversity

India: A Symbol of Unity in Diversity

Author Name : Dr. Neha Singh

ABSTRACT

India, a land of varied culture, different language and dialects, various religions and their innumerable sects, and different living style; provides the best example of unity in diversity. This particular phenomenon is limited to India only and this makes our nation a cut above from all other nations in the world. Unity and synthesis runs through the entire gamut of the Indian society. Besides the cultural unity, their is a geographical unity with its well defined physical and political boundaries, India makes a fascinating nation with all its variety of climate, religion, diets, customs, rites, rituals and cult. One finds a fundamental unity in Indian culture that can possibly elude one, if one concerns himself only with the external aspects of it. Such a man fails to find unity in diversity, the simple in the complex, the individual in the typical or common. It is however, fallacious to think that India lacked all cultural unity in the past and that this phenomenon is the outcome of recent events, the British rule among them. The idea of cultural unity is not new in India; it is a concept which has been common to Indians of the past. Keeping these views in mind the present work look into the forms of diversity in India as well as the bonds of unity in India.