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what are religious tolerance in india ?
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Dear Student,

a. India is a multi religious country and from time immemorial has been characterised by respect and tolerance towards religious communities
b. Religious tolerance implies respect towards other religious beliefs and practises
c. We may give number of examples from history , like that of Ashoka, who embraced Buddhism, also that of Great Mughal emperor Akbar who also showed respect towards all religious communities
d. Religious tolerance forms the basis of our democratic society and also of the principle of Secularism.
e. It believes in respect, acceptance and embracing other religious beliefs, faith, practises.
f. It implies that mutual admiration for religious beliefs and its principles.

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Throughout its history, the Indian subcontinent has been periodically torn apart by religious tension and conflict. As the birthplace of both Hinduism and Buddhism, a fertile ground for Islam, and home to many other beliefs and sects, South Asia is a living testament to both the potential wonders and horrors of religion. One of the more tragic examples took place at the turn of the 13th century CE, when slave armies commanded by the Sultan Muhammad of Ghor marched on Northern India. Intent on “purging by the sword the land of Hind from the filth of infidelity,” the Sultan’s soldiers took Buddhist India by storm, culminating in the capture of the ancient Buddhist monastery of Nalanda. In a surprise attack, Muslim soldiers torched its centuries-old library and mercilessly murdered its inhabitants, as “smoke from burning manuscripts hung for days like a dark pall over the low hills.” Over the course of the Ghurid wars, thousands of “infidel” temples were obliterated and their rubble hastily converted into new mosques, and for almost a millennium India’s illustrious Buddhist past was all but forgotten.
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