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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Milton Singer
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Extract

Civilization, it has been said, is the management of complexity. One ingredient of complexity is the plurality of social groups divided by language, race, religion, caste, and class. The political arrangements that enable plural groups to live together is one aspect of civic management.

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Urban Politics in a Plural Society: A Symposium
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , May 1961 , pp. 265 - 266
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961

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References

1 See Redfield, Robert and Singer, Milton, “The Cultural Role of Cities,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 3 (1954), No. 1, pp. 53–73CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Singer, Milton, “The Great Tradition in a Metropolitan Center: Madras,” pp. 141–182 in Singer, Milton, ed., Traditional India: Structure and Change (Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1959).Google Scholar