Cultural Unity of India

Author: Sabyasachi BhattacharyaSugata Bose/Several ContributorsTranslator(s)/ Editors(s): Sabyasachi BhattacharyaPublisher: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of CultureYear: 2013Language: EnglishPages: 478ISBN/UPC (if available): 9789381325209 DescriptionIn this multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-racial land, people lived happily for centuries maintaining peaceful co-existence in the midst of diversity till the other day. The well-known Ideologist A.L. Basham observed, ‘India was a cheerful land, whose people, each finding a niche in a complex and slowly evolving social system, reached a higher level of kindliness and gentleness in their mutual relationships than any other nation of antiquity.Diversity is but natural. Diversity appears in racial characteristics. Human languages. Man’s faiths-in brief, in respect of every aspect of cultural expression. Such differences apparently create problem in forming a homogeneous community.India had long ago discovered that uniformity in diver