Secularism: India at a Crossroads

By:

Godbole, Madhav

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Rupa Publication 2016Description: 429pISBN:

9788129137623

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DDC classification:

320.540954 GOD

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Item type	Current library	Item location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	NIMA Knowledge Centre	9th Floor Reading Zone	General	320.540954 GOD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		L0011407

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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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