66 SOCIAL SCIENTIST accommodated many legitimate aspirations and demands of many social groups. The most important illustration of democratic accommodation by the Indian State is North-East India. Arunachal Pradesh does not have a common language because according to the Census of 1991, the 26 major and 120 sub-tribes speak many dialects and they do not accept one language. The political journey of Arunachal Pradesh has been on the basis of 'gradualism*. Arunachal Pradesh still comes under restricted area and it operates under the Bengal Frontier Act 1873. The domestic visitors of India require an 'inner line permit to enter the state'. It was administratively a part of North East Frontier Agency, and it became a Union Territory on January 20,1972 and then it graduated to a full-fledged state on February 20,1987.26 Mizoram was annexed by the British in 1887 and throughout the British period it was treated as an 'excluded political area'. It was administered 'directly* by the Provincial Governor and outside the jurisdiction of Assam Legislative Assembly. The Mizos voted for the first time in 1952 and Mizoram become a Union Territory in 1972 and elections to the Mizoram Legislative Assembly were held on April 18, 1972. Mizoram witnessed insurgency for twenty years and Rajiv-Leidenga Accord of 1986 brought Mizoram back to democracy. Mizoram became a full-fledged state in 1987 and democratic elections and cultural autonomy have become the foundations of Mizoram politics after Rajiv-Leldenga Accord.27 The North-East India has witnessed insurgency, inter-tribal and intra-tribal conflicts during the last forty-seven years. The National Socialist Council of Nagaland and the Indo-Burma Revolutionary Front are involved in Naga versus Naga and Naga versus Kuki armed conflicts.28 The democratic state of India has been many a time successfully accommodated conflicting and competing pluralities because the central state authority of India enjoyed democratic legitimacy and it possessed political capabilities to accommodate specifics from North-East India to Kashmir. It will be involved in ethnic cleansing, river water disputes, and inter-religious holocausts if the authority of the Central State collapses in India.29 India is a country of thousands of minorities and the collapse of the democratic central state authority will lead to Hobbesian war of all against all. Similarly, any ho-mogenisation of Indian cultural diversities in the name of Hindutva will also lead to the disintegration of India. Eric Hobsbawn's warning to the territorial national states of Eastern Europe is applicable to India. Hobsbawn noted that 'the attempt to form homogeneous nation-states in Europe would be based on 'mass expulsion or extermination of minorities'. In the case of India, strong secular, democratic, federal central state authority can be the real defender of pluralities of India. A lesson from Yugoslavia may also be learnt. The Constitution of 1974 provides *all citizens to co-exist peacefully, without fear of dom-