4 The Rise and Decline of Indian Secularism

2015 ◽  
pp. 115-148
Keyword(s):  
Indian Secularism

Indian Secularism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHABNUM TEJANI
Keyword(s):  
Indian Secularism

Indian Secularism: A note

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dharma Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Indian Secularism

Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Contexts of Indian Secularism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akeel Bilgrami
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Indian Nationalism ◽  
Indian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indian Secularism ◽  
Personal Law ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru ◽  
Nation State Formation

Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi shared the view that India’s nationalism made secularism unnecessary, for secularism is a notion whose conceptual genealogy is in a specific historical context, an idea designed to repair the damaging effects of European nation-state formation. An alternative Indian nationalism was to consist in a reconstruction of what they took to be India’s unselfconsciously pluralist traditions; the genuine and lived pluralism of ordinary Indian social life was to be replayed in the political arena of anti-imperialism. Secularism, both in Europe and post-Independence India, consists not in neutrality among religions but in a lexicographical ordering between the commitments to freedom of religion and to fundamental constitutional rights. The exception granted by the Indian state to Muslim personal law ought not to be seen as a denial of secularism but as a suspension of the secular ideal in the context of the history of a collective human subject.

Patronage Government (1953–63)

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-204
Author(s):  
Aijaz Ashraf Wani
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Third ◽  
The People ◽  
Indian Nation ◽  
Indian Secularism ◽  
Great Mass

The aggressive campaign by Praja Parishad in Jammu and Buddhist groups of Ladakh, assisted by Hindu nationalist forces in Delhi, deeply disillusioned Sheikh Abdullah. The nature of the revolt clashed sharply with the ideology of Abdullah which had prompted him to prefer India over Pakistan. Having got disillusioned with the expectations he had pinned on Indian secularism and India’s constitutional promises of sovereignty, Sheikh voiced his disappointment publicly and drifted towards a position in support of plebiscite which led to his widely condemned dismissal. The deposition of Sheikh Abdullah in 1953, replaced by Bakhshi, created a storm in Kashmir followed by the formation of Plebiscite Front under the patronage of Abdullah. At the same time the central government had the urgency to further integrate Kashmir with India which the popular leader, Abdullah had resisted. Thus emerged the need of Gramsci’s ‘expansive hegemony’ to obtain the consent of the great mass of the people willingly and actively to the ruling establishment. The third chapter engages with the steps taken by Bakhshi under the patronage of the central government to change the tide in favour of the Indian nation-state and their impact.

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