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“Minorities are the natural custodians of the secular state [ D.E. Smith] Discuss.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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The sentence comes from "The Building of a Secular State", the closing chapter of Donald Eugene Smith's India as a Secular State (1963). Weighing the forces for and against Indian secularism, Smith counted "sizable and influential religious minorities" among its strengths, beside Hindu tolerance, the Constitution, the Supreme Court, the Congress and Jawaharlal Nehru. His…

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