Constituent Assembly Debates 8 Dec1948 Secularism
Shri Damodar Swarup Seth
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a secular state minorities based on religion or community should not be recognised. If they are given
recognition then I submit that we cannot claim that ours is a secular state. Recognition
of minorities based on religion or community is the very negation of secularism. Besides Sir, if
these minorities are recognised and granted the right to establish and administer
educational institutions of their own, it will not only block the way of
national unity, so essential for a country of different faiths, as India is,
but will also promote communalism, and narrow anti national outlook as was the
case hitherto, with disastrous results....
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