From Poverty-Haunted Bharat to Great India

... separatist attempts relying on foreign support (the Punjab, Assam). Social conflict has been a much rarer event in India’s history than in that of other societies, which is something that they tend to attribute, in the first place, to prevalence of Hinduism in the country. In accordance with such fundamental notions as karma (the sum total of actions by an individual in previous births and lives, and reward at present and in the future) and dharma (a person’s duty, status, rights and obligations),...