The Making of Indian Secularism
Title | The Making of Indian Secularism PDF eBook |
Author | N. Chatterjee |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 347 |
Release | 2011-01-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230298087 |
A unique study of how a deeply religious country like India acquired the laws and policies of a secular state, highlighting the contradictory effects of British imperial policies, the complex role played by Indian Christians, and how this highly divided community shaped its own identity and debated that of their new nation.
The Making of Indian Secularism
Title | The Making of Indian Secularism PDF eBook |
Author | Nandini Chatterjee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Christians |
ISBN | 9780230394254 |
"This book examines religion in India under British rule and the immediate postcolonial years, from an unusual angle, placing Indian Christians at the centre of the story. It addresses legal developments regarding religion and its practice during British imperial rule in India, and the political emergence of Indian Christians as a community in this context"--
Divorcing Traditions
Title | Divorcing Traditions PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Lemons |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2019-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501734784 |
Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical to the understanding of Indian secularism. Lemons analyzes four marital dispute adjudication forums run by Muslim jurists or lay Muslims to show that religious law does not muddle the categories of religion and law but generates them. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted in these four institutions—NGO-run women's arbitration centers (mahila panchayats); sharia courts (dar ul-qazas); a Muslim jurist's authoritative legal opinions (fatwas); and the practice of what a Muslim legal expert (mufti) calls "spiritual healing"—Divorcing Traditions shows how secularism is an ongoing project that seeks to establish and maintain an appropriate relationship between religion and politics. A secular state is always secularizing. And yet, as Lemons demonstrates, the state is not the only arbiter of the relationship between religion and law: religious legal forums help to constitute the categories of private and public, religious and secular upon which secularism relies. In the end, because Muslim legal expertise and practice are central to the Indian legal system and because Muslim divorce's contested legal status marks a crisis of the secular distinction between religion and law, Muslim divorce, argues Lemons, is a key site for understanding Indian secularism.
Secularism in India
Title | Secularism in India PDF eBook |
Author | V. K. Sinha |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Secularism in India
Title | Secularism in India PDF eBook |
Author | S. K. Ghosh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
The Crisis of Secularism in India
Title | The Crisis of Secularism in India PDF eBook |
Author | Anuradha Dingwaney Needham |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2007-01-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822338468 |
In this timely, nuanced collection, twenty leading cultural theorists assess the contradictory ideals, policies, and practices of secularism in India.
Challenges to Secularism in India
Title | Challenges to Secularism in India PDF eBook |
Author | Manvinder Kaur |
Publisher | Deep and Deep Publications |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
In the face of religio-communal identification, revivalism, fundamentalism etc. Secularism has come centre stage of political debate.