The Constitute Project's text of Nepal's 2015 Constitution, whose Article 4 declares Nepal a secular state and defines secular for the purposes of that article as protection of religion and culture handed down since ancient times, that is, sanatana, together with religious and cultural freedom, a step back from the 1962 and 1990 constitutions' declaration of Nepal as a Hindu Kingdom.
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AuthorFederal Democratic Republic of Nepal
PublisherConstitute Project
URLhttps://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Nepal_2016
Source Typeprimary source / official record
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Reliability Tier1
Tier 1: the primary constitutional text, read for the exact wording of Article 4 rather than for secondary commentary. Claims Backed By This Source (8 claims)
This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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