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With increase in education and economic development is Indian society becoming more secular?

  • UPSC 2018
  • 10 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

The answer depends on which sense of 'secular' is meant. In M. N. Srinivas's sense — the thinning of ritual regulation of everyday institutions — education and growth have plainly secularised India. In the classical sense of declining religiosity, they have not. Indian modernity has secularised structures without secularising consciousness.

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