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Unity and universality must belong to any culture that is true and vital. Now culture is a concept which cannot be simply or unitarily defined. There is no single character or mark which can be regarded as the essence or distinctive feature of culture. It is always a complex of many strands of varying importance and vitality. If we attempt to differentiate between culture and civilisation of life which makes civil society possible, culture, on the other hand, is the resultant of such organisation and expresses itself through language and art, through philosophy and religion, through social habits and customs and through philosophy and religion, through social habits and customs and through political institutions and economics organisations. Not one of them is separately culture, but collectively they constitute the expression of life which we describe as culture. Culture is the efflorescence of civilization. Civilization is the organisation of society which creates the condition is the organisation of society which creates the condition of culture.

(i) Name the topic and the author.

(ii) What are necessary for any culture?

(iii) Are philosophy and religion regarded as a culture?

(iv) Define culture in one sentence.

(v) Define civilization.

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(i) The topic is 'The Unity of Indian Culture' and the author is Humayun Kabir.

(ii) Unity and universality are necessary for any culture, they are true and vital.

(iii) No, only philosophy and religion are not separately culture.

(iv) Culture is efflorescence of civilization.

(v) Civilization is the organisation of society which creates the condition of culture.

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