ISSN:-2230-7850Indian Streams Research Journal

This article strives to understand the rise of religious controversies and their relationship with politics and society, a detailed analysis trying to know the reasons and impact of identity politics on the public life, social scenario, Indian integration, political system, democracy and on its secular nature, the analyses of formation of new states based on language, the role of government in provoking identity politics by making partial reservations, policies and how political parties are using their religious, linguistic, ethnic, caste identities to gain political powers without far sighting its impact on Indian people which is the homeland of diversities has been attempted. “We can build upon the contributions of cultural studies to dispose of the idea that identity is an absolute and to find the courage necessary to argue that identity formation – even body-coded ethnic and gender identity – is a chaotic process that can have no end. In this way, we may be able to make cultural identity a premise of political action rather than a substitute for it”. Paul Gilroy (1996:238) Identity Politics , article strives , politics and society, public life