00825nam a22001337a 4500 524988 524988 240205b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Govind, Rahul 43029 The constitutionality and rationality of the secular imperative Social Scientist 519(9-10), Sep-Oct, 2023: p.3-36 There is perhaps no more urgent and fraught issue in India today than the question of the relationship between the democratic State, secularism and religion. According to a widely held view, either secularism as a conceptnorm is inapplicable in India because of its origins outside of India, or any vaunted value of secularism that might exist has already been anticipated in Indian history outside of any external influence. – Reproduced Social Scientist AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 400035 IIPA IIPA 2024-02-05 519(9-10), Sep-Oct, 2023: p.3-36 AR130821 2024-02-05 AR