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Discuss the constitutional safeguards for religious minority groups and account for increasing religious fundamentalism in India.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Religion and Society in India

India wrote a denser set of guarantees for religious minorities than most liberal democracies attempt. Yet the decades in which they were most vigorously asserted were also the decades in which religious mobilisation grew. Explaining that connection is the real work.

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  • The constitutional architecture
  • Accounting for rising fundamentalism
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