India as a Secular State

India as a Secular State is a book written by Donald Eugene Smith and published by Princeton University Press in 1963.

This part also has a discussion on the description of religious freedom, separation of state and religion, and citizenship in the Indian Constitution.

Finally, this part concludes with a commentary on Indian nationalism, the tradition of Hindu tolerance, and western secularism.

He comments on the laws related to State regulation of religious propagation prior to 1950, and the provisions for the same in the Indian constitution.

He then discusses the issue of foreign missionaries in India from the times of British rule to the 1956 Niyogi Committee findings and recommendations and the ensuing response.