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In v_e's link, Thomas Sowell points to the lack of any 'multiculty' at the time of India's partition - or even now. But the divisions are not only between different religions, but are integral within individual ones themselves - Sunni v. Shia an obvious example, but I read: ' In the classic anthropological study of economic modernization From Field to Factory about building a bicycle factory in West Bengal in the 1960s, Morton Kass discovered that regardless of hiring policy, the employees would quickly reorganize themselves into departments subtly sorted according to caste, thus preserving traditional social structure within a modern economic context' !!