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What are the reasons being used by Nehru for keeping India secular? Do you think these reasons were only ethical and sentimental? Or were there some prudential reasons as well?



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Reasons for keeping India secular:

  1. All the Muslims did not leave India during partition. Some muslims stayed in India as a minority. Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to deal with them in a very civilised and dignified manner.
  2. He advocated the security and democratic rights of Muslims as a citizen of India.
No, these reasons were not only ethical and sentimental, but there were some prudential reasons also as:

  1. IndiaтАЩs secular nature cherished its long term goals and principles like socialism, equality, liberty and fraternity.
  2. Secularism stops any single faith to become superior and inferior to those who practicised another religion. Hence, it considers all citizens equal irrespective of religious affiliation.
  3. They cherished, therefore, the idea of a secular nation. This ideal was enshrined in the Indian Constitution.

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