TY  - BOOK
AU  - Godbole, Madhav
TI  - Secularism: India at a Crossroads
SN  - 9788129137623
U1  - 320.540954 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Rupa Publication
KW  - Law
N1  - For the first time since Independence, India is at a crossroads of secular and Hindu Rashtra (nation) ideologies. The Constitution of India is ambivalent about secularism, pandering to the demands of both the majority and minority communities. The founding fathers could not even agree on calling the Constitution ‘secular’. The word ‘secular’ became a part of the Preamble only during the ‘Emergency’. There is no consensus yet on its definition. In the process, secularism, though declared by the Supreme Court as a part of the ‘basic structure’ of the Constitution, has lost all credibility
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