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T1  - The Contest of Indian Secularism 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/13268 
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A1  - Hänninen, Erja 
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Y1  - 2002 
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AB  - The topic of my Master's thesis is the contest of Indian secularism after the independence of India. As challengers of the Indian secularism I examine Hindu nationalism, Sikh nationalism and Kashmiri nationalism, which either try to secede from the Indian union, like Sikh and Kashmiri nationalism, or to change it into a Hindu state. These nationalisms are also often referred to as communalism. The purpose of secularism was to guarantee the different religious groups inside the Indian union a pos... 
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KW  - history - India - 20th century; secularism; nationalism; communalism; identity questions; historia; Intia; 1900-luku; sekularismi; nationalismi; kommunalismi; identiteettikysymykset; Political History; Poliittinen historia; Politisk historia 
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