The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.130

c10.130

Lastly as Huntington put it, innate racial differences are much less important than innate individual differences or than those due to environment. "Heredity runs like a scarlet thread through history....mistaken racial views may have played as large a part as either language or nationality in moulding human destiny." F. W. Morgan has finely analysed the agencies that consolidate the diversities of regions. The politician and the practical administrator have been compelled to recognize region and regionalism through necessity, and thus geography is translated into action unconsciously. Secondly the writers and the intellectuals powerfully influenced and fostered the growth of regionalism by illuminating the unity of a region that gives it its vitality.¹ To end this discussion with a biological analogy, India is a large cell not with one nucleus but several. "These nuclear points," says Aiyappan, "are live and vital; so vital that they are capable of transforming themselves into supra-regional forces. These regional cultures are language cultures, not racial cultures, and their frontiers are natural barriers to begin with, but later language differences themselves provide the barrier limiting the lines of communication."²