It was as early as 1926 that Nehru felt that India would be dragged down into the abyss unless this so called religion was scotched and the intelligentsia at least was secularised. Nehru used this word in 1926 not in the accepted sense of separation of church and state…but to mean the toleration of all faiths and beliefs and permissible religious practices… Nehru looked to both industrialisation and mass education of the type that would dissolve dogma and the dogmatic mentality… To Nehru now religion was the fountain-head of authoritarianism and the method used at all times to secure the
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