PROJECT SYNOPSIS

Project Title - Secularism and Religious Fanaticism in India

Objective:

 To outline the relevant legal provisions pertaining to the concept of secularism.

Hypothesis-

 The assertive role of Indian Judiciary in the implementation of the Secularism.

 The meaning of the term ‘secular’ in the modern sense.

Research Question-

What factors causes enmity between different religious groups?

Literature review-
 Hoffman gave example of religious terrorism in his book “Inside Terrorism” that
Thug of ancient India killed the innocent peoples to terrorize in the name of the God
Kali and Jewish Zealots cut the throats of Romans in public to combat their
occupation of Israel.
 AshisNandy’s “Closing the Debate on Secularism : A Personal Statement” which
leads the next section (“Secularism and Democracy”), criticizes secularism of the
Nehruvian kind because it is “insufficient grounded in culture, particularly vernacular
culture”.
 UpendraBaxi’s essay “Siting Secularism in the Uniform Civil Code: A ‘Riddle
Wrapped inside an Enigma’?” examines “What pertinence may the Uniform Civil
Code have for the discourse concerning ‘secularism’?”
 In “Secularism and the Very Concept of Law”, AkeelBilgrami locates the problem of
personal law within an abstract and general problematic: “Can culture and religion
provide grounds for exemptions from a secular liberal nation’s laws?”

Chapterization-The researcher has divided the research project into following chapters-
I. Introduction

II. Secularism
III. Secularism under Indian Constitution

a. Preamble

b. Freedom of Religion under Article 25

IV. Right to Religion

a. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

b. Civil and Political discrimination 1966

c. Declaration on Religious and Discrimination 1981

V. Religious Fanaticism

a. Religious Fanatics

b. Religion and Terrorism