India's linguistic, religious, ethnic, and cultural diversities are proverbial. So are the political mobilizations and the violent conflicts and antagonisms which have arisen from time to time among and between persons from its distinctive cultural groups.However, it is important to note that neither political mobilization nor ethnic and cultural antagonisms flow naturally out of India's diversities.
The 1971 census of India enumerated 33 languages with speakers of more than one million, but only 15 of them have achieved any form of significant political recognition.
> The Politics of Ethnicity in India: Part two
Source > The Politics of India since Independence
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