… is best suited to the particular social and historical circumstances of independent India. This
… of secularism and that, consequently, the Indian state neither is nor was meant to be secular. …

… India, then I will have shown their critique to have misconstrued the nature of Indian secularism.
I … not fully grasp the conceptual structure of secularism; they fail to recognize properly that …

… I will not enter into the controversy whether the Indian state is at all secular in the sense in
which, say, the American state is. But that is only jurisdictionalist (see Luthera 1964). We do not…

… secular space, only someone with a blinkered vision would assert that the growth of militant
Hindu nationalism has been stalled and deny that secularism in India … threat to secularism is …

… by looking at the Indian Supreme Court … secularism, but a discussion of judicial interventions
in areas which, I believe, are important to the life of the Indian nation and Indian secularism. …

… and projects in the Indian context have been fairly limited. … on secularism with respect to
the specific version India has … religious traditions in India’s historical and political context. …

… fundamental features of the idea of secularism. I will want to … relevance of secularism is
contextual in very specific ways. If … secularism as it has come to be central in the Indian context …

… India maintains a constitutional commitment to secularism. However, the practice of secularism
in India … that compromised India’s secular ethos. These choices enabled the explicitly anti-…

… secularism as it has come to be central in the Indian context today. This is not a paper on Indian
secularism, … intended in the context of the construction of secularism in India and some of …

… the distinctiveness of the Indian model of secularism (Baxi 1995; Engineer 1998). Difference
remained the frame of reference and in almost all cases secularism, particularly its western …