In the grand theatre of post-independence Indian political discourse, few words enjoy as much sanctity, and as much ambiguity, as “secularism.” Brandished as a talisman of modernity, inclusivity, and national unity, secularism occupies an untouchable moral space in the republic’s ideological architecture. But what if this sacred principle has been, in practice, a mask for majoritarian disempowerment, a conduit for civilizational erasure, and a lever for political duplicity? This is the argument, indeed, the warning, laid out with clinical precision and moral courage by the late Sita Ram Goel in his seminal work, India’s Secularism: New Name for National Subversion. First published in 1993, the book remains as urgent today…