{"id":1371,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/ethnicity-is-the-underlying-cause-which-poses-a-great-challenge-upsc-psir-2022-2406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:24","slug":"ethnicity-is-the-underlying-cause-which-poses-a-great-challenge-upsc-psir-2022-2406","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/ethnicity-is-the-underlying-cause-which-poses-a-great-challenge-upsc-psir-2022-2406\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnicity is the underlying cause which poses a great challenge in the resolution of the problems in the North- East region of India. Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 NE = India\u2019s most ethnically diverse region \u2192 Weber: ethnicity asa subjective belief in common descent \u2192 the claim is partly right, but ethnicity is the language of conflict, not its root R2 the statement overstates ethnicity as \u201cthe underlying cause\u201d \u2192 ethnic assertion is visible on the surface, deprivation + neglect lie beneath<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">four forms: autonomy \/ secession \/ insurgency \/ identity riots \u2192 NE cases: Nagaland (sovereignty, Greater Nagalim), Assam (Bodo, migrant), Manipur (Meitei-Kuki-Naga) \u2192 overlapping, zero-sum claims \u2192 resolution hard \u2192 but ethnicity rarely erupts alone \u2192 instrumentalist view: elites activate identity \u2192 Muni: creation of vested political interests \u2192 deeper cause = deprivation + neglect \u2192 Gurr: relative deprivation (\u2018ought vs \u2018is, \u201cdisposes men to violence\u201d); NE insurgencies = neglect + weak development \u2192 federation-building (Baruah): central neglect + lost autonomy, not ethnicity \u2192 shift from nation-state building to genuine federation-building \u2192 India\u2019s record: managed better than many post-colonial states (Sixth Schedule, Article 371, statehood, accords) \u2192 Kohli: accommodation best in a multicultural democracy<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">primordial reading (ethnicity as given root; overlapping identities make conflict intractable) \u2192 instrumentalist + relative-deprivation reading (ethnicity as a mobilised symptom of neglect and denied autonomy)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">Rr! ethnicity is a real challenge, but a demand for recognition, not a fixed cause \u2192 remedy: more democracy, not less R2 conflict deepens only when accommodation is delayed and coercion replaces it \u2192 genuine federation-building achieves what coercion cannot<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[47],"pyq_marks":[31],"pyq_topic":[65],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1371","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-47","pyq_marks-20-marks","pyq_topic-caste-religion-and-ethnicity-in-indian-politics","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1371\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}