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This amendment to the Indian Penal Code was coupled with an emerging understanding of religion as rooted exclusively in sentiment.

— C. S. Adcock

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When coordinated acts of violence are justified as the inevitable result of hurt feelings, legal precautions against violent displays of religious passion may be said to have backfired.

Section 295A was intended to provide a legal tool to restrain the religious criticism associated with proselytizing by the Arya Samaj.

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