Political Economy of Secularism: Rediscovery of India

Nasir Tyabji

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Abstract: As it was in Europe, secularism in India is an intrinsic part of the process of the emergence of a modern identity of the people of a multi-language and multi-ethnic society, the necessity for which is being continuously generated by industrialisation and urbanisation.The emergence of this identity, however, has been hampered by the failure at the political level: the inability to evolve political units appropriate for the expression of regional aspirations, to entrench and extend the process of agrarian reforms, and to unify and modernise the systems of personal law, etc

Keywords: Political Economy; Secularism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H11 H41 I18 I24 I38 N45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994-07-09
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