Communities and courts : religion and law in modern India / edited by Manisha Sethi.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2022.
Description
viii, 141 pages ; 25 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Citation information
    • Notes on contributors
    • 1. Introduction : communities and courts : religion and law in modern India / Manisha Sethi
    • Part 1 Religion and law : competing sovereignties?
    • 2. Framing religion in constitutional politics : a view from Indian constitutional law / Mathew John
    • 3. Ritual death in a secular state : the Jain practice of Sallekhana / Manisha Sethi
    • Part 2 The contested field of Muslim personal law
    • 4. Codification of Islamic law in South Asia, or how not to do comparative law / Abhik Majumdar
    • 5. Shari'a politics, 'ulamā and Laity Ijtihād : fields of normativity and conviviality / Neshat Quaiser
    • Part 3 Communities and conflicts
    • 6. Religion, law and state policing : accusations, inquests and arbitration of religions conflicts in colonial India / M. Raisur Rahman
    • 7. The mosque as juristic person : law, public order and inter-religious disputes in India / Tanweer Fazal
    • 8. Art, law and the violence of offence taking / Malvika Maheshwari
    • 9. Secular moral/legal commitments revisited : an interlude by way of afterword / Sasheej Hegde
    • Index.
    ISBN
    • 1032195584 (hardcover)
    • 9781032195582 (hardcover)
    OCLC
    1264720926
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