Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Explain issues emerging from inter-religion interaction in India today. Evaluate them in the context of secularism in India.
- UPSC 1993
- Religion and Society in India
India's religious communities do not confront each other as doctrines; they meet at particular sites — the marriage registry, the shrine, the locality, the classroom and the market. The issues arise at those contact points, and Indian secularism is tested by whether the state regulates them even-handedly, not by what the Preamble says.
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- Marriage: the most supervised contact
- Shared sacred space and its contestation
- Neighbourhood: interaction foreclosed
- Which contact actually works
- Evaluation against secularism
- Conclusion
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