Associate Professor, Hindu College, Sonepat, India
Online published on 4 September, 2013.
Secularism is one of the major instruments for building a modern polity. It is one of the fundamental values of our national life, emphasized by the national movement and the founding fathers of the Republic. India has many religions and to give freedom of religion to everyone and for equality of religion, India was declared a secular country. The word secular was added into the preamble by the 42th Amendment (1976).
