India as a Secular State / / Donald Eugene Smith.
Throughout India's history, religion has been the most powerful single factor in the development of her civilization. Today, despite her religious tradition, India is emerging as a secular state. In this book, Donald E. Smith explores the origin of the concept of secularization as it is found b...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1963 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (540 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- PART ONE: THE SECULAR STATE IN PERSPECTIVE
- 1. WHAT IS A SECULAR STATE?
- 2. THE PROBLEM IN THE ASIAN SETTING
- PART TWO: BASIS FOR THE SECULAR STATE IN INDIA
- 3. THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION
- 4. THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK
- 5. THE THEORETICAL UNDERGIRDING
- PART THREE: RELIGIOUS LIBERTY AND STATE REGULATION
- 6. THE PROPAGATION OF RELIGION
- 7. THE QUESTION OF FOREIGN MISSIONARIES
- 8. PROBLEMS OF REGULATION AND REFORM
- 9. THE REFORM OF HINDU TEMPLES
- PART FOUR: STATE VERSUS RELIGIOUS REGULATION OF SOCIETY
- 10. RELIGION, LAW, AND SECULARISM
- 11. CASTE AND THE SECULAR STATE
- PART FIVE: THE SECULAR STATE AND CULTURE
- 12. EDUCATION AND RELIGION
- 13. HINDUISM AND INDIAN CULTURE
- PART SIX: MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS
- 14. A REPORT ON THE MINORITIES
- 15. THE CHALLENGE OF HINDU COMMUNALISM
- PART SEVEN: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
- 16. THE BUILDING OF A SECULAR STATE
- INDEX