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Religion and personal law in secular India a call to judgment
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- ISBN: 9780253214805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0253214807 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780253339904 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0253339901 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780253108685 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0253108683 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 362 p.)
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electronic resource - Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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