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n. - Loyalty to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole; The practice of living in a small collective unit, typically rural

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  • This communalism is a canker: whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.
  • Charakan, a doctor, writes about how communalism is being exploited to reach political goals:
  • It's what Steve Biko called "authentic black communalism."
  • Delhi police do a commendable job communalism does persist
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