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India is a secular state.

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The above statement is true.
The Indian Constitution states that the Indian State doesn’t have its own official religion. It treats all religions equally and does not favor any particular religion or discriminate against others. Every person is free to profess, practise, and propagate any religion of his/her choice, or not to follow any. The State doesn’t intervene unnecessarily in religious affairs and practices. This is followed by promoting secularism. But we don’t follow a strict separation of religion from the state as in American secularism. Many instances show the intervention of the state in religious affairs. One of them is that some seats are reserved for the backward classes of the Hindu community to uplift them. Likewise, the Indian State also gives support to religious institutions to set up their educational institutions, undertake pilgrimages, etc. This shows that the Indian State works to protect secularism and also enforce the ideals of the Constitution.

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