SECULARISM IN INDIA: FACADE OR REALITY? by Ayushi Jaryal
Author: Ayushi Jaryal, Law Student, Army Institute of Law INTRODUCTION Karl Marx famously said “Religion is the opium of masses”, and to combat this he endorsed the political idea of secularism. In common parlance emerging from to the western understanding of this concept, secularism implies divorce of state and religion and equal opportunities for all citizens irrespective of their religion. However, India adopted a modified version of the same wherein…