<P> Article 25 (2) (b) of the Indian constitution clubs Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains along with Hindus, a position contested by some of these community leaders . </P> <P> Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Sadanand Dhume criticises Indian "Secularism" as a fraud and a failure, since it isn't really "secularism" as it is understood in the western world (as separation of religion and state) but more along the lines of religious appeasement . He writes that the flawed understanding of secularism among India's left wing intelligentsia has led Indian politicians to pander to religious leaders and preachers including Zakir Naik, and has led India to take a soft stand against Islamic terrorism, religious militancy and communal disharmony in general . </P> <P> Historian Ronald Inden writes: He writes </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> Nehru's India was supposed to be committed to' secularism' . The idea here in its weaker publicly reiterated form was that the government would not interfere in' personal' religious matters and would create circumstances in which people of all religions could live in harmony . The idea in its stronger, unofficially stated form was that in order to modernise, India would have to set aside centuries of traditional religious ignorance and superstition and eventually eliminate Hinduism and Islam from people's lives altogether . After Independence, governments implemented secularism mostly by refusing to recognise the religious pasts of Indian nationalism, whether Hindu or Muslim, and at the same time (inconsistently) by retaining Muslim' personal law' . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Value of secularism can be found in which parts of the constitution