🔆 Understanding Types of Communalism 📍 Assimilationist ✅ Dominant religious groups demand minorities follow their culture. (Example: Viewing Buddha as an incarnation of Vishnu) 📍 Welfarist ✅ Focuses on uplifting a community socially and economically. (Example: Jiyo Parsi initiative) 📍 Retreatist ✅ A community isolates itself to preserve its identity, often avoiding political engagement. (Example: Bahá’i religion’s practices) 📍 Retaliatory ✅ Tensions between conflicting groups lead to violence. (Example: Hindu-Muslim riots) 📍 Separatist ✅ Pushes for self-governance within India based on religious identity. (Example: Greater Nagaland, Bodoland) 📍 Secessionist ✅ The extreme form, aiming for a separate nation based on religion. (Example: Khalistan, Azad Kashmir) #gs1 #society #mains Join @CSE_EXAM @upsc_society_gs