The case for introducing the study of religion in India
The author offers a brief report of introducing the study of religion in India since 1947. While doing so he refers to the Constitution of India, so-called Nehruvian Consensus, the Kothari Commission which made an important distinction between ‘religious education’ and ‘education about religion’, as well as several other bodies responsible for national policy on education, which gave a unique shape of Indian secularism.
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