Religion and law in independent India / edited by Robert D. Baird.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baird, Robert D., 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and law--India.

Religion and law.

Religion and state--India.

Religion and state.

India.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 518 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second enlarged edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2005.

Summary:

Contributed seminar papers.

Contents:

Religion and law in India : adjusting to the sacred as secular / Robert D. Baird

Religion and secularism under the Indian Constitution / P.N. Bhagwati

India's Constitution and traditional presuppositions regarding human nature / Harold G. Coward

On defining "Hinduism" as a religious and legal category / Robert D. Baird

Mandal, Mandir, Masjid : the citizen as endangered species in independent India / Gerald J. Larson

Muslim personal law and political identity in independent India / Gregory C. Kozlowski

Interaction of Islam and public law in independent India / Tahir Mahmood

Shah Bano case : some political implications / Kavita R. Khory

Sikhs and the law : a century of conflict over identity and authority / N. Gerald Barrier

Personal laws or a uniform civil code? / John H. Mansfield

Religion, politics and law in contemporary India : judicial doctrine in critical perspective / V.S. Rekhi

Women, children and the Constitution : hostages to religion, outcaste by law / Vasudha Dhagamwar

Devadasi reform : driving the priestesses or the prostitutes out of Hindu temples? / Kay K. Jordan

Renunciation and law in India / Vasudha Narayanan

Auroville and the courts in India : religion and secular / Robert N. Minor

To convert or not to convert : legal and political dimensions of conversion in independent India / Ronald W. Neufeldt

Conflict in the courts : caste and religious conversion in the Indian secular state / Robert J. Stephens

How not to be a Hindu : the case of the Ramakrishna Mission / Brian K. Smith

Recognition and legislation of private religious endowments in Indian law / Michael C. Baltutis

Persistent disjunction : parallel realms of law in India / Richard W. Lariviere

Reflections on law and meaningfulness in a North Indian Hindu village / Jonathan M. Lindsay, Richard Gordon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

8173045887

OCLC:

58534701