Religion and personal law in secular India a call to judgment (Indiana University Press, 2001)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Most of the papers presented at a conference held at Bloomington in 1999; some previously published