The monograph by Dmitry Abramov is provided by the political system and political culture of India. The specific object of studies - the particularly construction and the operation in this country a model оf secular state under pressure from the activity of religious radicalism, the confrontation of two concepts of nation and nationalism in the dispensation of Indian nationhood, as well as the activities of Hindu nationalist organizations "family" of the RSS (Sangh Parivar). The central place of the study occupy the political dimension of secularism, the identification of its Western roots, and those forms of development, which it as a political idea and political practices found in the East, chiefly in India, under the unique conditions multi-confession, hierarchically - vertically and horizontally - inhomogeneous (castes, sub-castes (jatis) system) Indian society. Unique socio-political system of India is also in the fact that after independence the country for a long time was at the center of a conflict between religious radicalism and secular state.