How terminological vagueness in Indian law allows for political manipulation and polarisation
A protest against so-called love jihad in Ahmedabad in 2018. | Sam Panthaky/AFP One way of defining secularism is that in a secular state, religion does not form the fundamental basis of law. India’s constitutional scheme makes this clear by giving the people constitutive power. The fundamental rights laid out on the Constitution make no reference to religion as a grounding principle. Rather, as stated in Article 25, the fundamental right to religion is itself subject to morality, health and public order. This right, as well as the other fundamental rights, are justiciabl...
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