Is India a Hindu state?

Presently, India and Nepal are the two Hindu majority countries. Most Hindus are found in Asian countries.

Is India a secular state Class 11?

India is called a secular state because it does not have any state religion and people are free to practice any religion of their choice.

Why is India a secular state?

The state treats all religions equally and grants religious freedom to every individual. The state has accepted religion as the personal affair of the individual. India is called a secular state because it does not have any state religion and people are free to practice any religion of their choice.

Is secularism bad for India?

In India, secularism became opposed to an opposite idea of communalism, identified with everything bad, with secularism as the highest good. Again, the idea of rejecting communalism does not at surface value sound bad. It suggests standing against divisive forces driven by theocratic-based compulsions of conversion and conquest.

What does Indra V Rajnarayan say about secularism?

In Indra v Rajnarayan [3] the Honorable Supreme Court interprets the very trait of secularism by stating that secularism means that the state should have no religion of its own and all the people in the nation should be equally empowered to exercise their freedom to profess, practice and propagate any religion.

Is the Indian model of secularism based on the Western model?

Controversy has always been there that the Indian model of secularism is based on the Western model of secularism, but the same appears otherwise. The western model serves a strict policy of separation of state and religion and such principle is mutual separation.

What is post-secular India?

It is India completing its Independence movement by reaffirming its own civilisational identity. Post-secular India is the era of a New India, which is a renewed India or awakened Bharat. Such an India is beyond the right-left, secular-communal dualities of Western politics and reaffirms its own dharmic values and yogic culture.