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“It cannot be denied that Islam, regarded as an ethical ideal plus a certain kind of polity - by which expression I mean a social structure regulated by a legal system and animated by a specific ethical ideal - has been the chief formative factor in the life-history of the Muslims of India. It has furnished those basic emotions and loyalties which gradually unify scattered individuals and groups, and finally transform them into a well-defined people, possessing a moral consciousness of their own.”

Source: Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal

“Real time functioning should have the PM and the CMs of the states working in tandem. The Federal structure is important in letter and spirit, it is our strength”

Should Important Real States Spirit Letters Should Have India Structure Governance Pms Tandem

Author:Narendra Modi

“Federal system is at the heart of Indian democracy but UPA is adamant to break the nation by breaking the federal structure for their vested interests. It's a conspiracy to grab power through the backdoor.”

Heart Nations Interest Break Democracy India Structure Indian Conspiracy Governance Vested Interests Adamant Backdoor

Author:Narendra Modi

“A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.”

Thinking Soul Body Century Design India Institutions Structure Planning Aspiration 21st Century Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.”

Looks Vision Economic India Innovation Structure West East Links Platforms

Author:Narendra Modi

“The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.”

Language Perfect Wonderful India Structure Greek Latin Hinduism Refined Antiquity Sanskrit

Author:William Jones

“I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.”

Thinking Young Girl Loses Modern Example Built India Structure Exclusion American Society Scientific Knowledge

Author:Vandana Shiva

“You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.”

Country Helping Action Changed Program India Structure Affirmative Action Affirmative Untouchables

Author:Barack Obama

“It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.”

Political Spirituality Social India Structure Accidents Intense Organisation Great Political

Book:Radhakrishnan Reader: An Anthology: Selections from the World-famous Philosopher-statesman's 40 and Odd Books Written Over a Period of 60 Years

Source: Radhakrishnan Reader: An Anthology: Selections from the World-famous Philosopher-statesman's 40 and Odd Books Written Over a Period of 60 Years

“Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.”

Social Wealth Economic Acceptance Limits India Structure Mobility Disparity Social Structure Social Mobility

Author:Steven Rattner