{"id":53049,"date":"2019-10-12T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=53049"},"modified":"2019-10-12T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:31:11","slug":"7-pm-nationalism-gandhis-idea-of-pluralism-and-secularism-12th-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-nationalism-gandhis-idea-of-pluralism-and-secularism-12th-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | Nationalism | Gandhi\u2019s idea of pluralism and Secularism | 12th October, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:\n<\/strong>Nationalism,\nGandhi\u2019s idea of pluralism and secularism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More\nin news:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>All over the world today, ethnic\nnationalism of one kind or another is making a comeback. For example, Christian\nnationalism in Poland and Hungary, white nationalism among evangelical\nChristians in the US, Slavic and orthodox-church based nationalism in Russia,\nIslamic nationalism in Turkey and Indonesia and so on.<\/li><li>The idea of Hindutva or Hindu Rashtra is in\nthe process of hijacking nationalism in India which is based on the pluralist\nideas of Gandhi and Tagore.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nationalism:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nationalism&nbsp;is an ideology that holds\nthat a&nbsp;nation is the fundamental unit for&nbsp;human&nbsp;social life, and\ntakes precedence over any other social and political principles. Nationalism\ntypically makes certain&nbsp;political&nbsp;claims based upon this belief.<\/li><li>Nationalism, the ideology of the\nnation-state, stands for the sense of togetherness of a people in terms of\nethnic, religious,&nbsp;linguistic, territorial, and other unities. <\/li><li>It is generally considered a secular\n(nonreligious) concept of Western origin. <\/li><li>Religious nationalism is therefore\nconsidered inimical to the secular state. <\/li><li>Empirical evidence reveals, however, that\nthe relationship is complex and varies from case to case. This complexity is\nillustrated by the situation in South Asia where secular and religious\nnationalisms have long been in conflict and where both secular and religious\nstates exist today.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nationalism\nin India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The second half of the 19th century\nwitnessed he full flowering of national political consciousness and the growth\nof an organised national movement in India.<\/li><li>Nationalism was evolving in new areas in\n1919 and, new social groups and new modes of struggle were developing.<\/li><li>The idea of satyagraha focused on the\npower of truth and the urgency of searching the truth. This idea imposed the\npower of truth and encouraged people to find the truth. He believed that\nphysical force was not the required step to fight the colonialists.<\/li><li>Nationalist movement spreads when people\nfrom different&nbsp;religions and communities&nbsp;begin to develop a sense of\ncollective belongingness. Through this, an identity of a nation is\ncharacterized.<\/li><li>During the Swadeshi Movement, a tri-color\n(red, green and yellow) flag was designed in Bengal. It had eight lotuses\nrepresenting eight provinces and a crescent moon representing Hindus and\nMuslims.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How\nideas of Gandhi and Tagore shaped pluralist India?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Both Gandhi and Tagore drew upon the long\nfolk-syncretic tradition of Indian society which grew out of the layers of\nsediments formed by successive waves of social reform and rebellion, called the\nbhakti movements and against the dominance of the rigid Hindu brahminical\nsystem, extolling inter-faith tolerance and pluralism, and wanted to make that\nthe constructive basis of Indian nationalism.<\/li><li>Gandhi Ji said that, \u201cFree India will not\nbe a Hindu Raj; it will be an Indian Raj, based not on the majority of any\nreligious sect or community\u201d.<\/li><li>Religion-based nationalism was propagated\nby Jinnah, and opposed by Gandhiji, was the basis of the formation of\nPakistan.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Gandhiji, Patel, Netaji Bose, Bhagat\nSingh, Vivekananda and even Ambedkar all of them were openly against the idea\nof Hindutva.<\/li><li>Thereby after Independence, Nehru and\nAmbedkar drew upon the society-centric pluralistic idea of nationalism of\nGandhiji and Tagore and gave it a legal-juridical form in the Indian Constitution.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pluralism:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The term pluralism has the basis in the principles of acceptance and diversity. It is promoted as a system for the common good of all. <\/li><li>It is a coming together with common recognition and credence to all beliefs and developments of modern social, scientific, and economic societies. <\/li><li>As pluralism functions as a system and be successful in achieving the common good, all groups have to agree to a minimal consensus regarding both shared values, which tie the different groups to society and shared rules.<\/li><li>The term religious pluralism is used in two senses:<ul><li>Firstly, it signifies a state of religious diversity within a society, situation in which various religions exist and develop side by side. <\/li><li>Secondly, it refers to a particular kind of attitude of a believer of one religion towards other religions.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gandhian\nConcept of Religious Pluralism and Secularism:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gandhi\u2019s conception of religion is\nprimarily concerned with spiritual development. <\/li><li>It is essential not only for the countries\npracticing religious pluralism but also for the re-education of the human race.\n<\/li><li>As the world focuses its attention on\nmaterialistic civilization, Gandhi\u2019s religious philosophy gains special\nsignificance in our age. <\/li><li>Religious Pluralism, according to Gandhi,\ndoes not include the historical or institutionalized religion because he\nconsidered them as manmade religions.<\/li><li>Gandhi propagated the essential unity of\nall religions and the basic unity of all humanity.<\/li><li>He believed that all religions are equal\n(sarva dharma samabhava); and all are to be tolerated.<\/li><li>Gandhi preached his ideals of secularism\nand religious tolerance throughout the nation. Gandhi wrote extensively on the\nneed of secularism in India, and made speeches on the same all over the\ncountry.<\/li><li>Secularism, in India, helps to promote\nharmony in the midst of several religious faiths and the spirit of common\nbrotherhood amongst all the people transcending religious, linguistic and\nregional or sectional diversities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion:\n<\/strong>The\ndiversity of religions in the world has been a fact throughout the history of\nthe world\u2019s living religious traditions. It is being increased presently,\nespecially by migration, globalization, and geopolitical events. The indistinctiveness\nof the term \u201creligious pluralism\u201d gets its clarity depending on how the term\n\u2018religious pluralism\u2019 is being used and understood. An indiscriminate rejection\nof the notion may misguide people in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, in the\nname of national integration and fighting enemies, both outside and within,\nthey undermine minority rights and procedures of democracy, they accuse\nliberals of appeasing the minorities (blacks and Hispanics in the US,\nimmigrants in Europe, Kurds in Turkey, Muslims in India), and try to suppress\ndissent as \u201canti-national\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is need to\nfight the ideological battle of various versions of nationalism to safeguard\nthe foundational values of multiculturalism in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/un-civic-nationalism-identity-politics-society-development-hindu-rashtra-ambedkar-6064961\/\">https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/un-civic-nationalism-identity-politics-society-development-hindu-rashtra-ambedkar-6064961\/<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Nationalism, Gandhi\u2019s idea of pluralism and secularism. More in news: All over the world today, ethnic nationalism of one kind or another is making a comeback. 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