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Discuss the major problems of religious fundamentalism in contemporary India. Give suggestions to tackle these problems.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Religion and Society in India

Every major Indian community has produced in the last century a movement claiming to restore an original, uncorrupted faith against the compromises of lived practice — each using modern organisation, print, litigation and electoral arithmetic. Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby name the family resemblance: selective retrieval of tradition, scriptural literalism, a dualist worldview…

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  • Suggestions
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