Question

how is secularism of India is different from other secularism

Answer 1

The biggest difference in Indian secularism and its forms in other democatic countries is that in most of the democratic countries secularism is conceived as an idea, aimed to promote equity among the religions with state not interfering in the matters of religion, while in India, despite its constitutional significance, it is practiced as a tool of political powerplay and religious appeasement to yield great electoral dividends.

Secularism is arguably the most ill-conceived and misused ideal upon which the Indian state is based. A term, which found its place in the constitution during the period of emergency through the 42nd amendment to the constitution, it has long been a tool of political appeasement of certain minority class in the hand of ruling dispensation.

The idea of secularism, which is essentially a western philosophy, is incorrigibly flawed in the context of Indian state. The idea of secularism in India was not necessarily entirely bad to begin with. It was only sensible for a country with such a hugely divergent religious and cultural practices to not be driven by any religious pursuit. This particularly did not seem to be wrong for a country whose core ideals were firmly rooted in the idea of egalitarianism. The idea of secularism fascinated especially to the Indian intelligentsia who were highly influenced with the western idea of nation state and more than anything else wanted to have a progressive society.

The problem began with the fact that the entire definition of secularism changed dramatically in the Indian social and political context as the political class misconceived the idea of secularism as the principle of minority appeasement. In India, secularism became opposed to the idea of communalism, identified with everything bad, with secularism as the noblest ideal. And on the basis of this utterly flawed notion, Indian political class unleashed a sectarian agenda, which consequently translated into successive electoral gains for them.

India’s espousal of secularism, not to be mistaken, was essentially inspired by a secular agenda from West which, as a matter of fact, went on to create more confusion in the Indian socio-political discourse. Freedom struggle of India was not just a war to emancipate India from the centuries old foreign rule but it was also a war to unshackle the minds of the people which had become so accustomed to the foreign rule that it no longer intrigued them. It was a war to abandon the centuries long aspersion of its civilisation that attempted to destroy its heritage.

Answer 2

Bcz no other country can rule over India and interfere in our internal and external affairs whereas that is not the case in other countries.....

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