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Distinguish between ‘secularism’ and ‘secularisation’. Analyse the nature and extent of secularisation in contemporary India.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Politics and Society in India

Secularism is a normative principle about how a state should relate to religions; secularisation is an empirical process by which institutions and conduct shed religious regulation. India can have a great deal of the first with only a particular, limited version of the second — and the two can even move in opposite directions.

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