ABSTRACT
The Indian Constitution clearly pointed out that no religious instruction shall be provided in any educational institutions wholly maintained out of state funds. The question of religious education in India falls into a different category. The importance which the government attaches at all stages of education to the training of character is clearly evident. There is a general agreement between Indian education authorities that religion in the widest sense should inspire all education and that a curriculum devoid of an ethical basis will prove barren in the end. In most 'Christian' schools the great majority of the children is non-Christian; either Hindu or Muslim. The decision as to what they should be taught has also been largely taken by the government. Indian educational provision contemplated in the Constitution caters equally for all religious groups who are "equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise, and propagate religion ".
