This article on #Indian #Communities and their dynamic of last 200 years presents the following through an #IKS Lens. 1. A native model to represent Indian Communities as a #network with specific characteristics 2. A new Concept: #Distance between the State & the Community 3. A native account of State-Society relationship drawn from #Rajadharma 4. The Indian societal #DynamicEquilibrium restated as a function of the Network and Distance from the State 5. Specific colonial era changes explained through a concept called #ColonialDrift 6. A new native account of colonial era social change resulting from Colonial Drifts 7. A new account of contemporary #conflicts represented through Colonial Drifts 8. Introduces two new Concepts #AlteredDistance and #PsychologicalInsecurity wrt Communities & the State 9. Explains the overall #KJV/#Caste Dynamic of today through the new concepts 10. In particular, restates and explains the rise of contemporary #RepresentationalPolitics as a function of the above concepts 11. Restates the community discourse of ‘Social Justice vs Merit’ as a larger #RepresentationalDynamic resulting from the #AlteredDistance 12. Characterizes the conflict between the #Past and #Present as a consequence of clash between two #KnowledgeParadigms flowing into all realms of life which will continue to play itself for time to come. You can find the article in the next tweet.