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Explain the concept of secular state and discuss the problems of India as a secular state.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Religion and Society in India

The Indian state is constitutionally secular while it administers some of the country's largest temples, part-funds pilgrimage and minority schooling, and applies a different family law to each community. A concept of the secular state built on separation must read India as a failure. The task is to state what the arrangement is, and where…

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