Communities and courts : religion and law in modern India /: religion and law in modern India. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Manisha Sethi.
• Editors: Sethi, Manisha
• Contents: 1. Introduction - Communities and Courts: Religion and Law in Modern India Manisha Sethi 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 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, ʿulamā and Laity Ijtihād: fields of normativity and conviviality Neshat Quaiser Communities and Conflicts 6. State, religion and law: accusations, inquests and arbitration of religious 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. The Trials of Art: Law and the production of violence Malvika Maheshwari 9. Secular moral/legal commitments revisited: an interlude by way of afterword Sasheej Hegde
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.60954; Religion and law -- India; India -- Religion
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000537857; 9781000537840; 9781003259770
• Related ISBNs: 9781032195582
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