" The affirmation that Indian democracy would be founded entirely on a shared citizenship centered on upholding liberal principles and participatory institutions rather than religion, race, or ethnicity ensured that the many particularities that might have otherwise divided India were in one fell swoop deprived of any fundamental political meaning. This did not imply that the particularities themselves ceased to exist or that they ceased
to provoke contention. Rather, they simply ceased to be privileged attributes that endowed their possessors with either greater rights or natural
claims on power. "

― Bibek Debroy , Getting India Back on Track: An Action Agenda for Reform