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How do you account for the increasing significance of religion in public and personal spheres in the context of secularization thesis in India? Explain.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 20 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

The secularization thesis predicted that modernity would quietly drain religion of social significance. India delivers the opposite: religion is more visible, more organised and more politically consequential than in 1950. Explaining this requires not abandoning the thesis but unbundling it.

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What the full answer covers

  • What the thesis actually claimed
  • Religion in the public sphere: deprivatisation
  • Religion in the personal sphere: intensification, not retreat
  • Why modernity intensified rather than dissolved religion here
  • What survives of the thesis
  • Conclusion

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