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Write short note: Religious fundamentalism.

  • UPSC 2005
  • Religion and Society in India

Indian religious traditions have no single inerrant canon and no central magisterium, which is why the term travels awkwardly here — it was coined for The Fundamentals, American Protestant pamphlets of 1910–15 asserting biblical inerrancy. Romila Thapar's essay on "syndicated Hinduism" shows what happens when it is borrowed anyway: a plural, sectarian tradition is edited…

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