How did the way of teaching of Indian history in schools and colleges fostered the growth of communalism in India?

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Communalism is basically an ideology. Communal riots are only one consequence of the spread of this ideology. Communalism is the belief that because a group of people follow a particular religion they have, as a result, common secular, that is, social, political and economic interests.

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