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Differentiate between a democratic and an authoritarian State.

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What is community identify? How have Indian politics provided national identity?

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Difference between Democratic and Authoritarian states:

Main Features of Democratic State:

1. Government by the people, a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected representative under a free electro system.

2. Free and fair elections.

3. Freedom of expression but in limit, until it does not affect the unity of our country.

4. Equal rights to everyone.

Main Features of Authoritarian State:

1. Authoritarianism is a form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. Individual freedoms are subordinate to the state and there is no constitutional accountability under an authoritarian regime.

2. In world today. North Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia are few countries where authoritarian rules persist.

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Community Identity: Community that provides us the language and the cultural values through which we comprehend the world. It is based on birth and belongings and never on some form of acquired qualification or accomplishment. Birth based identity is called ascriptive because this does not involve any choice on the part of me individuals concerned. These ascriptive identities are very hard to shake off because irrespective of our efforts to disown them, other may continue to identify us by those markers of belonging.

Indian Policies and National Identity:

1. A nation is a sort of large scale community. It is a community of various communities. States have tried to establish and enhance their political legitimacy through nation building strategies. They sought to secure the loyality and obedience of their citizens through policies of assimilation and integration. Attaining these objectives was no easy, especially in me context of cultural diversity where citizens, in addition to their identifications with their country with differences of ethnic, religions, linguistic and so on.

2. Policies of integration seek to assert a single national identity by attempting to eliminate the national and cultural differences from the public and political arena.