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Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws: Colonial Legal Legacies and the Indian State
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In this article, the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective is placed in a historical perspective, and the authors view the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy, balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice.Abstract:
Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that there is a complex continuity between the terms of the debate in the postcolonial Indian state and its colonial counterpart.read more
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Regulation of “Religion” and the “Religious”: The Politics of Judicialization and Bureaucratization in India and Indonesia
Yuksel Sezgin,Mirjam Künkler +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare the strategies through which India and Indonesia have regulated religion and addressed questions of what constitutes "the religious" in the post-independence period, and argue that what determines the consequences of the policy toward religion is less the choice of the implementing institution (i.e., the judiciary or bureaucracy) than the mode of delegation (vertical versus horizontal) which shapes the relationship between the policymaker and the institution implementing it.
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‘Signs of churning’: Muslim Personal Law and public contestation in twenty-first century India
TL;DR: The authors examines public debate over Muslim Personal Law, not as a site of consensus within the community, but rather as an arena in which a varied array of Muslim individuals, schools and organisations have sought to assert their own distinctiveness.
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Religious autonomy and the personal law system
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the Indian system of personal laws (the PLS) under which the state applies a version of religious doctrine to the family matters of citizens whom it identifies as belonging to different religious groups.
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Critical Junctures, Religion, and Personal Status Regulations in Israel and India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the regulation of personal status laws in Israel and India, which, despite attempts by political leaders at time of independence to defer clear choices regarding the role of religious law, became generally entrenched in later decades.