- Excess diversity in the wrong areas i.e. areas where diversity contributes to loss rather than gain in robustness. [MT]
- Eg. Scripts, regionalism.
- Regional rivalries can often be exploited by enemies of Hindus. Claiming to address genuine or imagined grievances, they can weaken the Hindu state. Example: “Dravidian” faultine and the Anglospheric interventions.
Language
(Regional) Language chauvinism is a front for secularism. Allows the other to claim to be part of the culture they seek to destroy.
Indira’s third intervention framed rules perpetuating English in State institutions and as the sole medium of higher education, ending even the pretence of indigenisation — another promise Nehru procrastinated by playing one Indic language against another, justifying the English-dominant status quo as “compromise” — a stratagem straight from the Panchatantra tale of the monkey and quarrelling cats.
As a foil
See suren article.