The concept of secularism as it had come to India from the west implies a total rejection or exclusion of religion and religious consideration from the sphere of politics. Since religion plays an important role in the lives of the people, the concept of secularism evolved in India as equal treatment of all religions. The…
Since religion plays an important role in the lives of the people, the concept of secularism evolved in India as equal treatment of all religions. The Constitution of India mandates that the State must be secular to ensure that on religious community does not dominate another and that the State does not impose any particular…
Secularism refers to a total separation of religion from the State. This concept developed in the west. Since religion plays an important role in the lives of the people of India, secularism in the Indian context emphasises equal treatment of all religions. The Constitution of India mandates that the State must be secular. A secular…
The concept of secularism as it has come to India implies a total rejection or exclusion of religion and religious consideration from the sphere of politics. Since religions play an important role in the lives of the people, the concept of secularism evolved in India as equal treatment of all religions. In spite of the…
The colonial power in India followed a policy of dividing the people on the basis of religious communities. Historians give two explanations for the division of people on the lines of religion. Firstly, the colonial power tried to divide the people on the lines of separate religious identities through the politics of counting of population….
The western concept of secularism is a total rejection or exclusion of religion and religious consideration from the sphere of politics. In the west the concept of secularism simply means that: (1) the sphere if politics and that of religion is separated, (2) the State will not adopt a religion as the State religion, and…
Religious polarization occurred in India through the colonial practice of demographic politics as well as of separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims making people conscious of their identities on communal lines.
Gandhi’s principle of ‘sarva dharma samadbhava’ is based of respect for all religious faiths on the basis of democratic principle of freedom and equality whereas Nehru’s ‘dharma nirapekshata’ implies that the State would not be influenced religious considerations in enacting policy. However Nehru later realised that religion could not be banished for the domain of…
It was an ideology propounded by Muhammed Ali Jinnah for the creation of Pakistan. He argued that Hindus and Muslims are two distinct nationalities on the grounds of religion in spite of the shared culture, tradition or ethnicity.