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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Pattern of secularism in India.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Religion and Society in India

The word "secular" entered the Preamble only with the 42nd Amendment (1976), yet since 1950 the Indian state had been throwing temples open, administering endowments and funding minority schools. That gap is the clue. Indian secularism is not a doctrine imported and then applied but a pattern assembled from three layers, and it is read…

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  • Antecedents: patronage, not abstention
  • The colonial layer: religion made an administrative category
  • The nationalist settlement: three idioms, one text
  • The four features of the pattern
  • Conclusion

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