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This chapter offers a detailed historical analysis of key decisions made by the judicial system in India that established a Hindu majoritarian approach to other religious groups. An important consequence of the Supreme Court's pronouncements on religion has been that the lower echelons of the judiciary have also delivered judgments that try to cast variegated traditions within a master narrative of Hinduism. Generally speaking, there are two types of judges, assimilative secularists and pluralist secularists. Of these, the former outnumber the latter. Though judges of both categories claim to be in favor of secularism, because their conceptions differ vastly, so do their judgments.