The author of this treatise fleshes out three definitions of the word from two dictionaries and one encyclopaedia and contends that all are "simplistic and misleading insofar as they imply that secularism is a single-value idea." Instead, she postulates that "secularism is a far more complex, triple-value concept". Almost every political party or civil society group, whatever their political orientation, claims to be "secular" and committed to the "ism".
The author of this treatise fleshes out three definitions of the word from two dictionaries and one encyclopaedia and contends that all are "simplistic and misleading insofar as they imply that secularism is a single-value idea." Instead, she postulates that "secularism is a far more complex, triple-value concept".
This is the third book in an intended series of 10 publications that analyses various core elements of India's Constitution. Its launch coincided with the 75th anniversary of Independence, the intention being that publications like these would stand apart from the watershed event's conversion into an "event" by the government.
We are now marking the same watershed anniversary of India becoming a republic in 1950, when the Constitution came into force. Over the years, various issues that made up the core ideas of what is also termed as "India's only Holy Book", are used mainly as clichés and rarely as motivating principles.
The first book in this series was written by eminent social scientist, Neera Chandhoke, who has also helped the series anchor Harsh Mander bring it out and was evocatively titled We, the People, and Our Constitution.
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