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Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (AS) and the other labelled as Reason (R).Assertion (AS): The secular ideology of the Indian State appears to be paradox in view of the deeply religious orientation of the Indian society.Reason (R): India's secularism was invented for integrating the multicultural plurality of the society into a common nation-state as well as for containing potentialities of the imperial 'divide and rule' and Muslim Leagues' 'two-nation' theory in British India.Codes:

A. Both (AS) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (AS).
B. Both (AS) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (AS).
C. (AS) is true but (R) is false.
D. (R) is true but (AS) is false.
Answer» B. Both (AS) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (AS).


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