Compare and Contrast Indian Secularism from other democratic countries. Explain with the
help of an example of U.S.A.
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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. ... Critics claim the Indian form of secularism as "pseudo-secularism".
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The main difference between Indian secularism and its variants is the fact that secularism is used in most of the democratic countries to encourage justice among religions with a State that does not interfere with religion, whereas in Indian it is exercised as an instrument of political control and religious appeasement notwithstanding the constitutional value of it.
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- While the Indian State is following a positive action approach, the American State is implementing a policy of distinguishing religion from politics and does not interfere with any religious activity.
- While the US is a largely homogeneous Christian nation, country, India is a very diverse nation with many different religions and the concept of secularism denotes equal respect to all religions.
- However, an issue is that, within Indian social and political context, the whole concept of secularism has radically changed as the class misconceived the idea of secularism as the ideology of the appeasement of the majorities or minorities.
- In India, secularism rejects the notion of communalism, identified with everything bad, with secularism as the noblest ideal. And this completely flawed concept led to a communal agenda by the Indian political class which ultimately led to successive electoral gains for them
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