Diversity in India- A Challenge for Unity

India is one of the world’s oldest civilization and it is continuously evolving, making it difficult to demarcate India's past into time boundary. This sense of continuity need not be equated with rigid unchangeability. Rather it is India’s ability to absorb and assimilate new Ideas and practices which makes this continuity possible. Indian civilization during its long journey evolved various practices and customs, which later became its salient features, which further are also continuously evolving