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Write short note : Secularism as a scientific concept.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Religion and Society in India

The word "secular" entered the Preamble by the Forty-second Amendment in 1976 and is nowhere defined in the Constitution. Indian sociologists have argued since whether secularism is an analytical category that travels to India at all, or an imported political value in the dress of one. That dispute is this question, and separating secularism from…

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  • The Indian dispute over the concept
  • Srinivas and the concept that does scientific work
  • What the philosophy of science contributes
  • Conclusion

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