describe the aims and objective of indian secularism
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The State does not enforce any particular religion and cannot take away the religious freedom. The Indian Constitution guarantees Fundamental Rights that are based on the secular principles. Secularism is a modern political and constitutional principle that involves two basic propositions
What is Indian Secularism?
The Indian Constitution mandates that the Indian State be secular. According to the Constitution, only a secular State can realise its objectives to ensure the following:
1. that one religious community does not dominate another;
2. that some members do not dominate other members of the same religious community;
3. that the State does not enforce any particular religion nor take away the religious freedom of individuals.
The Indian State works in various ways to prevent the above domination. First, it uses a strategy of distancing itself from
religion. The Indian State is not ruled by a religious group and nor does it support any one religion. In India, government spaces like law courts, police stations, government schools and offices are not supposed to display or promote any one religion.