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Examine the impact of secularization on various religious communities in India.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Religion and Society in India

In Indian sociology the word does not mean what it means in the West. M. N. Srinivas (Social Change in Modern India, 1966) used secularisation for the thinning of the ritual content of social institutions — a social process, distinct from secularism, a doctrine about what the state may do. The question asks about the…

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  • What secularisation has meant in India
  • The differential impact
  • Differentiation without decline
  • Conclusion

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