Communities and Courts - Religion and Law in Modern India

The essays in this volume demonstrate how questions of religious pluralism, secularism, law and order, are all central to understanding how the religious and the legal remain imbricated within each other in modern India.

List of contents

1. Introduction - Communities and courts: religion and law in modern India PART 1 Religion and Law: Competing Sovereignties? 2. Framing religion in constitutional politics: a view from Indian Constitutional Law 3. Ritual death in a secular state: the Jain practice of Sallekhana PART 2 The Contested Field of Muslim Personal Law 4. Codification of Islamic Law in South Asia, or how not to do comparative law 5. Shari'a politics, ¿ulam¿ and Laity Ijtih¿d: fields of normativity and conviviality PART 3 Communities and Conflicts 6. Religion, law and state policing: accusations, inquests and arbitration of religious conflicts in colonial India 7. The mosque as juristic person: law, public order and inter-religious disputes in India 8. Art, law and the violence of offence taking 9. Secular moral/legal commitments revisited: an interlude by way of afterword

About the author

Manisha Sethi teaches at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. She is the author of Kafkaland: Law, Prejudice and Counterterrorism in India (2014) and Escaping the World: Women Renouncers among Jains (Routledge, 2012).

Summary

The essays in this volume demonstrate how questions of religious pluralism, secularism, law and order, are all central to understanding how the religious and the legal remain imbricated within each other in modern India.

Product details

• Authors: Manisha (Nalsar University of Law Sethi
• Assisted by: Manisha Sethi (Editor), Sethi Manisha (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032195599
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219559-9
• No. of pages: 142
• Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, RELIGION / General, Asia, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / International, International Law, Religion: general, Religion & beliefs, Islamic Law, Social Law, Religion and beliefs, Regional Geography, Systems of law: Islamic law, LAW / Islamic, Social law and Medical law