As the 50th anniversary of the Emergency rekindles debate over secularism, it is worth recalling that the framers of the Constitution debated and decided against the inclusion of the term 'secular' in ...

Amid a renewed debate over removing the word ‘secular’ from the Preamble of the Indian Constitution, a look at the term ...

Dattatray Hosabale’s recent remark is part of RSS’s calculated move to test the waters, to march further in its agenda of ...

Rightwing political parties and politicians in India have repeatedly demanded, unsuccessfully, to remove the words “secular” ...

The preamble of India's Constitution defines it as a socialist and secular republic, but the RSS — a nationalist group close ...

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said 'there is no need for socialism in India', adding 'secularism is not the core of our culture'.

Ancient India certainly had democratic and republican states, but so did ancient Greece, Rome, and a host of other places. David Stasavage, dean for the social sciences at New York University ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Before the Silk Road, there was India's Golden Road, says historian William Dalrymple. It was a route that ran from the Roman Empire in the West, to Korea and Japan in the Far ...