Secularism : Its implications for Law and life in India / edited by G.S. Sharma (Record no. 24894)

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Personal name Sharma, G.S. (ed.)
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Title Secularism : Its implications for Law and life in India / edited by G.S. Sharma
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Bombay
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. N. M. Tripathi.
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1966
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Summary, etc. I have great pleasure in presenting this volume on Secularism : Its<br/>Implications for Law and Life in India. It contains the papers presented<br/>at a seminar organized at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, under the<br/>joint sponsorship of the Institute and the Education Commission, Govern-<br/>ment of India, in November 1965. Summaries of the proceedings at the<br/>discussion sessions are also included. The seminar (which was originally<br/>to have been held at Jaipur) was attended by eminent educationists,<br/>judges, lawyers, law teachers, political scientists, Indologists, historians,<br/>priests and sociologists. As many points of view as possible were presented<br/>at the seminar.<br/>a<br/>No apology is needed for a seminar of this kind in India. An effort<br/>to examine and analyze the concept would have been a necessary and<br/>welcome step at any time in the history of the country after independence.<br/>But the social and political problems of contemporary India make serious<br/>thinking upon the subject inevitable. In view of the stresses and<br/>strains and feelings of insecurity generated by continuous conflict with our<br/>neighbour it becomes the responsibility of the intellectuals to guide Indian<br/>social thinking on proper lines and to see to it that an atmosphere of<br/>brotherliness, tolerance, national unity, and the transcending of religious<br/>and sectarian differences is created. It is only through this atmosphere of<br/>a compromise of interests, of willingness to give everybody a hearing, of<br/>emphasizing that opinions should not be formed and expressed unless they<br/>are based upon rational appraisal, that Indian democracy can flourish. In<br/>truth the complex heterogeneity that India presents in almost all direc-<br/>tions-race, language, religion and colour can only be suitably contained<br/>through a democratic principle. But the atmosphere to operate happily<br/>and functionally rests not upon special privileges to any group but upon a<br/>guarantee that the institutions of law and order will be so run that there is<br/>no discrimination or arbitrariness as against individuals or groups.<br/>Secularism emerged in the West as a concept antagonistic to religion<br/>and as a byproduct of materialism and industrialization. The problem of<br/>secularism in India is how such a peculiarly intellectual and scientifically<br/>empirical concept can be made viable in a community subject to mass illite-<br/>racy, superstition and the all-inclusive hold of religion. Both the Hindu<br/>and the Muslim religions, though neither has an established church, pro-<br/>fess to guide the life of their votaries from birth to death.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Secularism India
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