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SECULARISM IN NEW PHASE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA

Sabir Khan

Volume: 6 Issue: 2 2016

Abstract:

India is a multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-cultural society in the South Asia. Where peoples are belong to different faith like Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian. Thus they have different religious values, ethos and practices. The constitution of India is safeguarding religious practices through fundamental rights. In a Democratic country like India deep conflicts emerged on religious concerns especially on matters related to religious equality in last years. However the preamble of Indian constitution declares and prohibits discrimination against members of particular religion, sex, color, caste or place of birth. The word secular was inserted in to the preamble by the 42nd Amendment of Indian Constitution for maintaining equality among the Indians. Hence, secular values of discrimination on the basis of religion, caste etc. were used in mere contextual basis in India. The Secularism in India is prevailing for the sake of vote bank purposes, When ModI government came in power in May 2014, after that many communal riots occurred in entire India. Thus, secularism is in new critical phase in this era.

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