Include home page template in specific category template

A somewhat ghetto but fast way to do this is to just use get_template_part, for example, 

get_template_part('index');

A better use for it is to grab “parts” of your template and not a whole index, but it still works.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part

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