Essay On Communalism In India

Though there might be inclinations to have the perception that Communalism between Hindus and Muslims has prevailed since Muslims took over India. Muslim attacks on India is said to have originated in the 10th century A.D. during the times of Muhammad Ghazni and Muhammed Gori.Even though there were destructions of the areas of worship of Hindus and building of mosques over these areas and considerable efforts were made to convert the natives to Islam, these did not provide substantial grounds for the genesis if the phenomenon of Communalism. There were other instances which displayed religious tolerance.”When Sivaji sacked Surat, he brought back the copy of the Holy Quran bearing it reverently on his head.” The various societies which existed in India had undergone a radical change under the British colonial rule as there was an effort to tamper with their very essence. In other words, the unambiguous articulation

Nehru understood that India with its heterogeneous and multiple culture and ethnicities could only truely develop as a nation when the interests of all religions are given equal significance and protection as failure. The word ‘Secular’ was only inserted in the Preamble, by Constitution (42nd Amendment) Act, 1976 but it is to be noted that it is because of the secular nature of the Constitution which was already embodied in the enacting provisions (Arts. 25-30) that the Supreme Court could observe (in 1973) that secularism was a basic feature of the Indian Constitution even before the word ‘secular’ was inserted in the Preamble in 1976.In Indira’s case, the basic feature of Secularism was explained to mean that-“The State shall have no religion of its own and all persons shall be equally entitled to the freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate