India. religion, demography and the policy
The population of India (1, 2 billion people) professes six basic religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism. Political and economic rivalry of various religious groups often takes the form of municipal communalism. The ideas of communalism, directed at decrease of the status of religious minority, are dangerous for multinational and multiconfessional countries. The principles of democracy and secularism incorporated in the Constitution of the country, should, in opinion of the author, become those pillars of statehood which will make it possible to keep the territorial integrity and cultural unity of nations and religious communities.