Hello everyone welcome back to another class of npsc in Mains so as uh as said in the last class I’ll be starting the essay topic so AA essay sh for 1,000 words and this video has been presented by let’s GRE npsc so if if you like this
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Temple may be seen as a validation of major majoritarian religious sentiments While others see it as a fulfillment of a deeply held religious sentiment for a substantial section of population elaborate so recently do Ram AA Temple means supp secularism which is put forward in the Preamble article 25 to 28 Indian
Constition question so let us start the topic so in introduction kin recently the bran patista ceremony for the ram Mand in aoda took place on January 2224 that is today the ceremony will include the temples Consecration and the invocation of a de as an idol that is
You know RDA Lord r that is Prime Minister Modi has performed performed the rituals to Mark the bran prista means inauguration ceremony in the event was broadcasted life across India and live streamed on the YouTube channel dur Rian National for international audiences so it does introduction
Though so let us start with the main concept is main concept secularism there so we uh we secularism explain grow or Indian or Western secularism so it those introduction though I hope you all understood this and some of you may be asking the notes so I’ve already told you that you can
Write it down and it will be very beneficial for you if you write it down main point so let us start main concept of secularism secularism means the separation of religion from political economic and social and cultural aspect of life Rel being treated as a purely personal matter me secularism religion politics
Economy ter secular means being separate from religion or having no religious basis it is a principle of separation of government institution and person mandated to represent the state from religious Institution and religious dignitaries th religion should be separate from the aspect of state and governance so the term secular means separate from
Religion government Institution for example the office because we are separating the religion from the day to day uh Administration and governance it from government institution government institution includes not only government offices but government schools government colleges government institutions or anything that is owned by the government uh religious uh government
Institution so next secularism and the Indian constitution so Indian constitution the secularism so I’ve already told you Preble Constitution all the fundamental ideas of secularism has been explicitly Incorporated in the Constitution different Clauses so term secular the 42nd amendment of 1976 Ed by Mrs indraa Gandhi tushi India is a
Sovereign socialist secular Democratic Republic secular socialist or original the pr was amended by socialist secular or integ but Focus socialist or secular so secular was also added by the 42nd Amendment it highlights the fact that India is a constitutionally secular Nation without a state religion and that the state must respect all religion
Equally without favoring or patronizing anyone in particular secular me respect Western Wern in the 14 and 15 Cy Western that is the United Kingdom since they are the religious head they must adher to the religious heads so religion State means adist it means pluralistic uh nature of our religion that is
India that is we have Hindus Muslim Christian Chan sik uh pares that is Zoras pares Buddhist Jes and many other religion so equ secularism so let us look indan see relating secularism that is article 14 Article 15 discrimin on the basis of State religion race cost sex or place of birth article
16 irrespec of religion is equality of opportunity to all in in matters of public employment next article 25 right to freely profess means really religious belief Express Prof practice me practic means spread article 26 states that that religious groups or individuals though they have the right to establish Institution for religious and charitable
Purposes for example naland the S St Joseph inaz these are all biblical name St Joseph as a Holy Cross as a and I’m taking an example of diur next hind that isap higher secondary school that is they are all religious uh mean religious organ school school woman College religious organization same with the
Holy Cross SLE that established by the Catholic so government that is the state has given equal opportunities to everyone to establish religious institution will be uh keep in mind that government schools government colleges it is not allowed next article 27 Freedom uh the state shall not compel
Any citizen to pay any taxes for the promotion maintenance of any particular religion for example state state state Nal the state in it means the government so the government will not compel us to pay taxes for example like the for examp us that is we are free not to give
Any taxes to for promotion of any particular religion our next so article allows religious instruction to be given at education institution run by VAR religious groups for example madas means Muslim school for example Catholic church we give uh education on Bible moral science like that so it allows to religious in
Instruction to be given at religious in run by religious group keep in mind that government institution it is not allowed article cultural identities of minorities Christian article 30 provides educational rights of all minorities education Min Chris scholarship uh when you’re applying for exam that is Bank exam or Central exam
They ask you do you belong to any religious minorities Christian zoraster par compens next article 51 upholds the spirit of fraternity and Rich history of our composite cult culture fraternity means Brotherhood among the people next let us study about the Indian secularism or Western secularism secularism it embodies the positive concept of
Secularism positive secularism equ Western secularism separation as negative secularism negative secularism negative concept means separate indan secularism equ number two the state cannot give financial support to education insti run by religious communities so w contion permites partial financial support to religious building for religious schools such as
Uh as well as financing of religious building and infrastructure by state it is no place for idea of State supported religious reform Indian secularism is compatible with the idea of State supported religious reform last in Western secularism individual rights are the Forefront means individual right to first Indian
Secularism deals with not only religious freedom of individuals but also the free religious freedom of minority do a western secularism just remember that Church sep indan secularism plis or positive concept of secularism where all religious are treated equally it was next advantages of being a secular State means secular cultural enrichment so we
Get we are the culturally enrich rich in culture next excelling democracy democracy since secularism democracy secular concept democracy uph is secularism has marked the seven decades of successful journey of Indian democracy it to the Democracy on parts of progress and thus created an inclusive and meur democracy next peace and stability peace and
Stability equally means equ for example government Muslim Christian Hindus they will they will work together for their uh for the collective upli of the country peace and stability are minority protection since uh Min since minority can be include not only the Hindus Muslim but the Christian sik Janss Buddhist
Etc minority protection there so that we are protected next challenges to and threats to secularism so K next for conversion for conversion means Muslim husband will forcely convert the Christian person Christian wife into Muslim so the for conversion recently aners to to not to allow um conversion of religion forced conversion no separation
Of religion from politics so uh politics are religion such as the m is and and rights in 1984 Mumbai rights and G rights in Gujarat so this are all because of communal politics practice of pseudo secularism indifferently implementing secularism means secularism selectively apply for example lack of political will to
Implement UCC uniform civil code aggressive abolish aggressive triple talak fearing loss of Muslim vs so it was a gr fundamentalism and Rise of Hindu nationalism in recent years recently we have seen the race of nationalist with the right-wing political parties and constitutional contradiction constitutional contradiction me for example principles of State policy Article
4 we can see that hind but Muslim exclusion of minorities minori and defective education system education system improve because of that it is a threat to democracy and discriminative state intervention so discriminative State intervention for example up or Central India or Northern India most Muslim so they Shing discrimination and communal rights
Communal rights is also one of the major threats to secularism communal rights means uh rioting or fighting in in on the basis of religion so communal rights so let us go to the main topic of today that is aoda Ram issue Ram Mand issue so uh let us positively or negatively that
Is a positive or impact or negative impact the r issue in India has been a significant and complex intersection of religion politics and secularism at the heart of the matter is the iot dispute which revolves around the site of traditionally believ to be the birthplace of Lord rum the controversy
Has historical Roots but it has again in the late 20th century reling to Legal battles and social tensions so this time Aya R it was full of issues and tensions so we’ll study this so so it is believed that so it is believed that Muslim so one the controversy is that it is
Beli Hindu temple that is Temple the most B it was full of controversy because because aoda is a very SEC place for the Hindus 1992 demolition of2 political parties for examp so after 202 Hindu so this was decided in the 2020 so let us start on the key
Challenges to Indian secularism post by Ram Mand is the delegate balance between religious sentiment and the principle of secular State B Masid built in the 16th century stood at a disputed site until it was de demolished in 1992 by a mop claiming that the MOs are constructed on
The ruins of an ancient ram Temple question this event triggered communal violence and ra questions about the ability of the Indian state to uphold the principles of secularism is India really secular so uh Landmark decision 2019 sorry 2019 for the construction of directing the government to provide an alternate
Piece of land to the Muslim parties for the construction of a mosque the verdict sought to strike a balance in resolving the long standing issue through a legal framework means government state which are supposed to give equal importance to all religion is focusing on only one particular religion so however the ram
Mand issue raises concern about the influence of a religious sentiments on legal and political decision critics argue that the construction of the temple may be seen as a validation of major majoritarian religious sentiment potentially undermining the secular fabric of the nation the state involvement in facilitating the
Construction of a temple on the disputed side can be interpreted as an endorsement of a specific religious narrative means R specific because government central government majority majorian particular religion focus it is not good however is because it is because it is um it is historically proven must build the temple so
Proponents of the temple construction argu that it was a fulfillment of a deeply held religious sentiment for a particular section of the population they they condemed the Judgment by providing resolution oppose the rule of the law while accommodating the religious aspiration of a significant community so so both positive or negative means we
See that majoritarian specific religious it was from before so the ra issue challenges in in maintaining a strict separation between religious and state in India the involvement of the state in deciding the faith of the religious site CED with emotional and significant historical significance at test the limit of
Secularism IND secularism test it promps the re examination of the concept of secularism in Indian context where the state is expected to treat all religions equally while navigating the diverse religious landscape so challenges Indian democracy key equ treat not giving particular uh special treatment to one religion so in
Conclusion the ram M issue in India brings forth the intricate relation between secularism religious sentiment and legal decision so it is a intricate relation between secularism freedom of to choose any religion religious sentiment means MO Hindu Muslim feeling legal decision means 2019 the challenges lies in upholding the principles of secular State while
Addressing the historical and cultural complexities surrounding religious s the resolution of such issue requires a delegate balance that respects the right and sentiment of all communities reinforcing the need for new sense understanding of secularism in the Indian context so secularism first secularism is equally respect up and legal decision means
Legally as the Judiciary judgment judici justment so this is the conclusion for this essay you can write it down and if you have any questions you can ask and you can join the telegram Channel and follow me on social media for more information so next class I’ll see you thank you guys
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