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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Roover, Jakob De |
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The vacuity of secularism: on the Indian debate and its Western origins |
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2002 |
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p.4047-053. |
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28 Sep |
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The rise of Hindutva has often been interpreted as a threat to the secular state. Similarly, the recent outbursts of Hindu-Muslim conflict are said to be related to the decay of secularism. The author argues that the concept of secularism is fundamentally obscure, since it is founded upon an arbitrary distinction between the religious and the secular. The belief that religion should be separated from politics is a normative dogma that precedes all theoretical analysis of the Indian situation. Therefore, this concept of secularism prevents us from understanding the problems of pluralism in contemporary India, instead of helping us to solve them. - Reproduced. |
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Secularism - India |
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Secularism |
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Economic and Political Weekly |
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