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Write short note : Religious fundamentalism.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Religion and Society in India

India's most effective religious movements have been built in printing presses, television studios and now on handsets — a network the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India counted at over 1.02 billion internet subscribers in December 2025. That is the sociological key. Religious fundamentalism is not tradition surviving into the modern world; it is a modern…

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  • Not a survival, but a product of modernity
  • The instruments are modern
  • Organisation rather than theology, carried by the new middle class
  • Conclusion

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