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Ethnic relations in India, the Glossary

Ethnic relations in India have historically been complex.^[1]

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Discrimination in India
Racism in Asia
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Society of India

All India Christian Council

The All India Christian Council (AICC) is a nationwide alliance of Christian denominations, mission agencies, institutions, federations and Christian lay leaders.

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Anti-Bihari sentiment

Anti-Bihari sentiment refers to the large scale discrimination in India against Biharis. Ethnic relations in India and Anti-Bihari sentiment are discrimination in India and Racism in India.

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Asian Ethnicity

Asian Ethnicity is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in Asia.

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Auto rickshaw

An auto rickshaw is a motorized version of the pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Bharatiya Janata Party

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress.

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The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. Ethnic relations in India and caste system in India are discrimination in India and society of India.

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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.

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Communal violence

Communal violence is a form of violence that is perpetrated across ethnic or communal lines, where the violent parties feel solidarity for their respective groups and victims are chosen based upon group membership.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Delhi Police

The Delhi Police (DP) is the law enforcement agency for the National Capital Territory of Delhi.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Dindigul

Dindigul and Tiṇḍukkal is the romanized spelling from Tamil script. is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Director general of police

The Director General of Police (DGP) is the highest-ranking police officer in Indian states and union territories.

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Discrimination

Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, such as race, gender, age, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation.

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Dispur

Dispur is the capital of the Indian state of Assam and is a suburb of Guwahati.

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Ethnicity

An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.

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Government of Delhi

The Government of Delhi, officially the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD; ISO) is the governing body of India's National Capital Territory of Delhi, whose urban area is the seat of the Union Government.

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Greater Noida

Greater Noida is a planned city located in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Gurgaon

Gurgaon, officially named Gurugram, is a satellite city of Delhi and administrative headquarters of Gurgaon district, located in the northern Indian state of Haryana.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hindu Yuva Vahini

The Hindu Yuva Vahini is a Hindu youth religious group, founded by Yogi Adityanath, intended successor of the Gorakhpur Mutt temple in Gorakhpur, India.

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Human rights in India

Human rights in India is an issue complicated by the country's large size and population as well as its diverse culture, despite its status as the world's largest sovereign, secular, socialist democratic republic. Ethnic relations in India and Human rights in India are society of India.

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Hunger strike

A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change.

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Islamophobia

Islamophobia is the irrational fear of, hostility towards, or prejudice against the religion of Islam or Muslims in general.

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Jawaharlal Nehru University

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU; IAST: Javāharalāla Neharū Viśvavidyālaya) is a public research university located in Delhi, India.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.

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Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front

Karbi Longri N.C. Hills Liberation Front was a militant group operating in Karbi Anglong district and Dima Hasao district (formerly known as the North Cachar Hills district) of Assam, India.

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List of districts in India

A district (zila), also known as revenue district is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory.

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Manipur

Manipur (Kangleipak|) is a state in northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital.

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Meghalaya

Meghalaya (or, "the abode of clouds") is a state in northeast India.

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Meitei people

The Meitei people, Meetei,P.20: "historically, academically and conventionally Manipuri prominently refers to the Meetei people."P.24: "For the Meeteis, Manipuris comprise Meeteis, Lois, Kukis, Nagas and Pangal." Manipuri people is an ethnic group native to Manipur. Ethnic relations in India and Meitei people are ethnic groups in India.

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Murder of Nido Taniam

Nido Tania (c. 1994 – 29 January 2014) was a 20-year old student from Arunachal Pradesh who was murdered in the Lajpat Nagar area of Delhi, triggering widespread protests. Ethnic relations in India and murder of Nido Taniam are Racism in India.

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National Capital Region (India)

The National Capital Region (NCR; ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra) is a planning region centered upon the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi in India.

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National Council of Intra-Indian Relations

The National Council of Intra-Indian Relations is an autonomous inter-provincial body that handles skirmishes and other issues that arise between the various ethnic and religious groups that comprise the diverse Indian population.

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Nepali language

Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia.

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Northeast India

Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (commonly known as the "Seven Sisters"), and the "brother" state of Sikkim.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Punjab and Haryana High Court

Punjab and Haryana High Court is the common High Court for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh based in Chandigarh, India.

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Punjab Police (India)

The Punjab Police (abbreviated as PP) is the police agency responsible for law enforcement and investigations within the state of Punjab, India.

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Race (human categorization)

Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.

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Roorkee Institute of Technology

Roorkee Institute of Technology, Roorkee (also known as RIT Roorkee) is an Engineering college located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

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Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989

The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (its correct name) was enacted by the Parliament of India to prevent atrocities and hate crimes against the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.

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Somnath Bharti

Somnath Bharti (born 10 May 1974) is an Indian lawyer who has become a politician representing the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

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South Delhi district

South Delhi is an administrative district of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India with its headquarters in Saket.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Tertiary education

Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.

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United Liberation Front of Asom

The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is an armed militant organisation operating in the Northeast Indian state of Assam.

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Unity in diversity

Unity in diversity is used as an expression of harmony and unity between dissimilar individuals or groups.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.

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Wasbir Hussain

Wasbir Hussain is an Indian journalist, author, and political commentator specializing in peace, security and development in Northeast India.

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World Values Survey

The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global research project that explores people's values and beliefs, how they change over time, and what social and political impact they have.

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1991 anti-Tamil violence in Karnataka

The 1991 anti-Tamil violence in Karnataka refers to incidents of mob violence targeting Tamils in state of Karnataka in India.

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2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra

The 2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra began on 3 February 2008 after violent clashes between workers of two political parties—Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Samajwadi Party (SP)—at Dadar in Mumbai, capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Ethnic relations in India and 2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra are discrimination in India and Racism in India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_relations_in_India

Also known as Attacks on Africans in India, Discrimination against North-East Indians, Discrimination against ethnic minorities in India, Ethnic Tension in India, Ethnic discrimination in India, List of racial attack on africans in india, Race relations in India, Racial relations in India, Racism and race relations in India, Racism in India, Violence against Africans in India.

, Uttarakhand, Wasbir Hussain, World Values Survey, 1991 anti-Tamil violence in Karnataka, 2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra.

Ethnic relations in India, the Glossary

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See also

Discrimination in India

Racism in Asia

Racism in India

Society of India

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