India’s 1947 secularist founding principle aimed to unify its religious communities
Evidence
Bourdain told the story of Rajasthan through the promise of India, the modern nation established in 1947 on the principle of secularism. A secularism that aspired to glue the nation’s vast religions into one integrated community, instead of the fractured castes with fault lines drawn in blood. Although young, Mrinal knew this history quite well, as did the some 200 million other Muslims who called India home. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 392
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: how exactly did Modi’s regime dismantle the 1947 secularist charter, and what legal instruments did it use?
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