Contents
Preface.
1. Introduction/Robert D. Baird.
2. Religion and law in India adjusting to the sacred as secular/Robert D. Baird.
3. Religion and secularism under the Indian constitution/P.N. Bhagwati.
4. India's constitution and traditional presuppositions regarding human nature/Harold G. Coward.
5. On defining Hinduism as a religious and legal category/Robert D. Baird.
6. Mandal Mandir Masjid the citizen as endangered species in independent India/Gerald J. Larson.
7. Muslim Personal Law and political identity in independent India/Gregory C. Kozlowski.
8. Interaction of Islam and Public Law in independent India/Tahir Mahmood.
9. The Shah Bano case some political implications/Kavita R. Khory.
10. Sikhs and the law a century of conflict over identity and authority/N. Gerald Barrier.
11. The Personal Laws or a uniform civil code/John H. Mansfield.
12. Religion politics and law in contemporary India judicial doctrine in critical perspective/V.S. Rekhi.
13. Women children and the constitution hostages to religion outcaste by law/Vasudha Dhagamwar.
14. Devadasi reform driving the priestesses or the prostitutes out of Hindu temples/Kay K. Jordan.
15. Renunciation and law in India/Vasudha Narayanan.
16. Auroville and the courts in India religion and secular/Robert N. Minor.
17. To convert or not to convert legal and political dimensions of conversion in independent India/Ronald W. Neufeldt.
18. Conflict in the courts caste and religious conversion in the Indian secular state/Robert J. Stephens.
19. How not to be a Hindu the case of the Ramakrishna Mission/Brian K. Smith.
20. Recognition and legislation of private religious endowments in Indian Law/Michael C. Baltutis.
21. A persistent disjunction parallel realms of law in India/Richard W. Lariviere.
22. Reflections on law and meaningfulness in a North Indian Hindu Village/Jonathan M. Lindsay and Richard Gordon.
Index of cases.
Index.