Editing Hindutva (section)

===Uniform Civil Code===
{{Main|Uniform Civil Code}}

The Hindutva leaders have sought a [[Uniform Civil Code]] for all the [[Indian people|citizens of India]], where the same law applies to all its citizens irrespective of the individual's religion.<ref name="HutchinsonSmith2000p888"/><ref name="Ghosh2012p103">{{cite book|author=Partha S. Ghosh|title=The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia: Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YwvaaHI8sjEC|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-70511-3|pages=103–111}}</ref> They state that differential laws based on religion violate the [[Indian Constitution]] and have sowed the seeds of divisiveness between different religious communities.<ref name="HutchinsonSmith2000p888"/><ref name="Ghosh2012p103"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=66122|title=BJP calls for Uniform Civil Code|publisher=expressindia.com|agency=Press Trust of India|date=15 April 2006|access-date=25 February 2009|archive-date=13 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113064037/http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=66122}}</ref> Under the current laws that were enacted in 1955–56, state John Hutchinson and [[Anthony D. Smith]], the constitutionally directive principle of a Uniform Civil Code covers only non-Muslims. The Uniform Civil Code is opposed by the Muslim leaders.<ref name="HutchinsonSmith2000p888">{{cite book|author1=John Hutchinson|author2=Anthony D. Smith|title=Nationalism: Critical Concepts in Political Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NN0m_c8p6fgC |year=2000|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-20112-4|pages=888–890}}</ref> A Uniform Civil Code that applies equally to the Muslims in India is also opposed by political parties such as the [[Indian National Congress]] and the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|Communist Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/news/may/03code.htm|title=Uniform civil code will divide the country on communal lines: Congress|publisher=Rediff on the Net|access-date=26 February 2009|archive-date=23 May 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523194453/http://www.rediff.com/news/may/03code.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>