According to the Constitution of India, all religions will be equally respected in India. There will be no opposition to any religion and no love for any one particular religion. What does this preamble to the constitution speak of?
Answers
Article 41 guarantees, subject to law, public order, and morality, that “every citizen has the right to profess, practice and propagate any religion” and every religious community or denomination has “the right to establish, maintain and manage its religious institutions.”
Officially, secularism has always inspired modern India. In practice, unlike Western notions of secularism, India's secularism does not separate religion and state.The Indian Constitution has allowed extensive interference of the state in religious affairs.
India does partially separate religion and state. For example, it does not have an official state religion and state-owned educational institutions cannot impart religious instructions. In matters of law in modern India, however, the applicable code of law is unequal, and India's personal laws – on matters such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, alimony – varies with an individual's religion. Muslim Indians have Sharia-based Muslim Personal Law, while Hindu, Christian and Sikh Indians live under common law. The Indian Constitution permits partial financial support for religious schools, as well as the financing of religious buildings and infrastructure by the state. The Islamic Central Wakf Council and many Hindu temples of great religious significance are administered and managed by the Indian government. The attempt to respect unequal, religious law has created a number of issues in India such as acceptability of child marriage,polygamy, unequal inheritance rights, extra judicial unilateral divorce rights favorable to some males, and conflicting interpretations of religious books.