Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. - Shashi Tharoor

कोई विचार निर्णायक या अन्तिम नहीं है धर्म का मर्म अदृश्य और अज्ञात है सद्‌मार्ग केवल महापुरुषों का सद्‌मार्ग है — यक्ष प्रश्न, श्लोक 11426

The little court disappears — trade languishes — the capital decays — the people are impoverished — the Englishman flourishes, and acts like a sponge, drawing up riches from the banks of the Ganges, and squeezing them down upon the banks of the Thames.

Every Hindu may not be conscious of the finer points of his faith, but he has been raised in the tradition of its assumptions and doctrines, even when these have not been explained to him. His Hinduism may be a Hinduism of habit rather than a Hinduism of learning, but it is a lived Hinduism for all that.