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Write short note: Role of religion in civil Society.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Religion and Society in India

Much of India's associational life is religious before it is civic: mission schools and hospitals, the Sikh langar, the Ramakrishna Mission's relief network, waqf-funded clinics, caste-sect trusts. Rajni Kothari read the rise of non-party formations in the 1970s and 1980s as Indian civil society's real birth, and André Béteille warned that India's associational deficit leaves…

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  • The Indian critique of the category
  • Religion as builder
  • Religion as wrecker
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