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Religion and personal law in secular India : A call to judgement

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Publication details: Delhi Social Science Press 2001Description: 362p viiISBN:
  • 9780253214805
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.085200 LAR
Contents:
Contents Introduction : the secular state in a religious society / Gerald James Larson; Religion, personal law, and identity in India / Granville Austin; Religious minorities and the law / Ruma Pal; Living with difference in India : legal pluralism and legal universalism in historical context / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph; Religious and charitable endowments and a uniform civil code / John H. Mansfield; Personal law and reservations : volition and religion in contemporary India / Laura Dudley Jenkins; Uniform civil code debate : lessons from the criminal procedures / Arvind Verma; Gender implications for a uniform civil code / Robert D. Baird; Personal and the political : Indian women and inheritance law / Srimati Basu; Observations on the historical destruction of separate legal regimes / Kunal M. Parker; Who was Roop Kanwar? : Sati, law, religion, and postcolonial feminism / Paul B. Courtright and Namita Goswami; "Where will she go? What will she do?" : paternalism toward women in the administration of Muslim personal law in contemporary India / Sylvia Vatuk; Affirmative action in the United States and the reservation system in India : some comparative comments / Kevin Brown; Personal law systems and religious conflict : a comparison of India and Israel / Marc Galanter and Jayanth Krishnan; Road to Xanadu : India's quest for secularism / Rajeev Dhavan; Some continuing issues / William D. Popkin.
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Contents
Introduction : the secular state in a religious society / Gerald James Larson;
Religion, personal law, and identity in India / Granville Austin;
Religious minorities and the law / Ruma Pal;
Living with difference in India : legal pluralism and legal universalism in historical context / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph;
Religious and charitable endowments and a uniform civil code / John H. Mansfield;
Personal law and reservations : volition and religion in contemporary India / Laura Dudley Jenkins;
Uniform civil code debate : lessons from the criminal procedures / Arvind Verma;
Gender implications for a uniform civil code / Robert D. Baird;
Personal and the political : Indian women and inheritance law / Srimati Basu;
Observations on the historical destruction of separate legal regimes / Kunal M. Parker;
Who was Roop Kanwar? : Sati, law, religion, and postcolonial feminism / Paul B. Courtright and Namita Goswami;
"Where will she go? What will she do?" : paternalism toward women in the administration of Muslim personal law in contemporary India / Sylvia Vatuk;
Affirmative action in the United States and the reservation system in India : some comparative comments / Kevin Brown;
Personal law systems and religious conflict : a comparison of India and Israel / Marc Galanter and Jayanth Krishnan;
Road to Xanadu : India's quest for secularism / Rajeev Dhavan;
Some continuing issues / William D. Popkin.

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