RELIGION AND

POLITICS

PRESENTED BY:-
BAKUL JAIN
ROLL NO. 9
 WHAT IS RELIGION AND
POLITICS
 RELIGION IN ITS MOST SIMPELEST TERMS
IS THE FAITH WE PRACTICE INCLUDING
TRADITIONS WE FOLLOW AS WELL AS
MORALS ASND ETHICS WE PRACTISE.
 POLITICS IS ALL THAT WE CONCERN WE
WITH WHO AND HOW OUR NATION IS
GOVERNED , THE POLICIES WHICH ARE
FOLLOWED INCLUDING A NATION’S
FOREIGN POLICY.
RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN
INDIA
 ACCORDING TO 2001 CENSUS ,HINDUISM-
80.5% OF THE POPULATION OF INDIA,
ISLAM-13.4%,CHRISTINIATY-2.3%,AND
SIKHISM 1.9%
 THE MAIN REASONS ARE THE RELIGION
BOUGHT BY TRADERS,

TRAVELLERS,
IMMIGRANTS AND
CONQUERERS.
MIXING OF RELIGION AND POILITICS

 THE EFFECT OF RELIGION ON INDIAN

POLITICS IS STAGGERING.INDIAN
POLITICAL LEADERS HAVE LONG USED
RELIGION AS A TOOL TO BE IN POWER.
 NOT NEW AS A PHENOMENON,IT HAS
BEEN SO SINCE
PRE-INDEPENDENCE ERA.
EG ARE MUSLIM LEAGUE
COUNCIL ACT,PARTITION
AND 1947 RIOTS
 MODERN DAY EXAMPLES

1. ELECTORAL POLITICS:USED FREQUENTLY,

TO FILL VOTE BANKS,AROUSE PEOPLE
,INFLUENCE THEIR THINKING AND THUS
SWING THE OPINION OF PEOPLE.FOR
EXAMPLE:VARUN GANDHI HATE
SPEECH.THERE ARE MANY
MORE EG –BABRI
DEMOLITION,SHAH BANO
CASE AND MANY MORE.
 MODERN DAY EGS CONTD…
 COMMUNALISM:.IT IS A MODERN WAY THAT
DESCRIBES A BROAD RANGE OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
AND SOCIAL THEORIES CENTERED ON A COMMUNITY.
COMMUNALISM IN INDIA IS widespread

COMMUNALISM IS GENERALLY
SEEN BETWEEN HINDUS AND
MUSLIMS BUT IN RECENT TIMES SIKH COMMUNITYIS
ALSO GIVEN
THANKYOU