What are importance of communal harmony?

Answer 1

Communal harmony is a word very familiar to one and all in India. It is always understood as harmony between people following different religions. But this word has wider meaning and application. People belonging to one religion may be Islam or Hinduism but can have difference in terms of caste or religious sub-sects. Hence when there is difference of religion,language,caste,colour etc this lack of homogeneity in people will create feeling of superiority of ones own identity in comparison to others. This takes many forms once this is associated with politics as it would mean advantage to some and disadvantage to others and this in turn creates feelings like jealousy and heartburn in the different sections of the society. Why this occurs in humans even after so many forward strides being taken in culture and civilization as well as in science and technology. The answer for this rests in the basic human instinct of group identity and territorial belonging dating back to pre-evolution days . Many of the things like religion and spiritual teaching are an effort to further the evolution of homosapiens from these tendencies carried over from pre evolutionary days. But ingenuity of humans have come into play and it has started using these differences to create politics of narrow mindedness and parochialism. Once these difference are stopped being used as a tool of politics communal harmony would start prevailing automatically. In fact there is a long distance to traversed to attain a stage i evolution where these instincts becomes alien to human nature. Till communal harmony will never be complete in its practice in the human society.