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What makes india a secular country

Answer 1

Secularism in India means equal treatment of all religions by the state. With the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution ofIndia enacted in 1976, the Preamble to the Constitution asserted that India is a secular nation. However, neither India'sconstitution nor its laws define the relationship between religion and state.
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Answer 2

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There are two aspects to this question. The one deals with the concept of India as a society and civilization that is different from the law and binding rules. The other concept include India as a nation-state that has its constitution and laws.

Let’s first discuss India as a society.

India is the birthplace to at least four major religion of the world, namely Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. It is home to almost all the religion of the world. Very less people know that Christianity, that is the most dominant religion of the world today came to India even before it went to Europe, in 52 AD with St. Thomas the Apostle. There is no need to mention about the Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism as it is the native religion. Islam that was centered around Arabia was introduced to India on the western coast when Arab traders as early as the 7th century AD came to coastal Malabar and Konkan-Gujarat.

The cases of persecution of Jews and Parsis or Zoroastrians is well known to all. India gave them the home and protection at a time when no one in the world dared to give them shelter. Fleeing from the persecution of Islamic invaders, Zoroastrians came to India on the coast of Gujrat between 8th and 10th century. And listen to this famous story of religious tolerance, respect and acceptance from the mouth of Mr. Narendra Modi himself:

These cases of embracing of very different and sometimes even conflicting religions are not lone cases, they all are connected. They represent a larger contour that had defined Indian society. They tell a story of how Indian society was Secular even before the world has known the meaning of the word Secular.

Now coming to the case of India as a nation-state:

Constitution of any country is a document that reflect two things, one the existing reality of the society of the state and second, it is a vision document that guides the nation to the path of glory and success. At the time of independence when the Constitution was being framed the religious atmosphere wasn’t tolerant and respectful. Communal riots and looting were happening all over the country, in fact a new nation was being carved out on the grounds of religion solely on the assumption that Hindus and Muslims cannot live together. It is a irony that today India is home to the second largest Muslim population in the world, more than the population of Pakistan.

The constitution of India enshrined the principles of Secularism in the very spirit of constitution. It became a testimony and guardian of the religious harmony and tolerance in the country. Secularism without even using the word itself in the constitution became the essence of it.

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:

that one religious community does not dominate another;that some members do not dominate other members of the same religious community;that the State does not enforce any particular religion nor take away the religious freedom of individuals.

So in short, where Indian Constitution is the guardian and promoter of secularism, its the Indian society that gives the strength to the idea of Secularism in India.
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