TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baird, Robert D
TI  - Religion and Law in Independent
SN  - 9788173045882
U1  - 340.109 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Lordson Publishers Pvt. Ltd
KW  - Law
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religion and state India
N1  - Include Indexes; 1.	Preface; 
2.	Introduction; 
3.	Religion & Law in India: Adjusting to the Sacred as Secular;
4.	Religion & Secularism Under the Indian Constitution; 
5.	Indias Constitution & Traditional Presuppositions Regarding Human Nature;
6.	On Defining Hinduism as a Religious & Legal Category; 
7.	Mandal, Mandir, Masjid: The Citizen as Endangered Species in Independent India;
8.	Muslim Personal Law & Political Identity in Independent India;
9.	Interaction of Islam & Public Law in Independent India;
10.	The Shah Bano Case: Some Political Implications;
11.	Sikhs & the Law: A Century of Conflict over Identity & Authority;
12.	The Personal Laws or a Uniform Civil Code?;
13.	Religion, Politics & Law in Contemporary India: Judicial Doctrine in Critical Perspective;
14.	Women, Children & the Constitution: Hostages to religion, Outcaste; Law; 
15.	Devadasi Reform: Driving the Priestesses or the Prostitutes Out of Hindu Temples?; 
16.	Renunciation & Law in India; 
17.	Auroville & the Courts in India: Religion & Secular;
18.	To Convert or Not to Convert: Legal & Political Dimensions of Conversion in Independent India; 
19.	Conflict in the Courts: Cates & Religious Conversion in the Indian Secular State; 
20.	How Not to Be a Hindu: The Case of the Ramakrishna Mission;
21.	Recognition & Legislation of Private Religious Endowments in Indian Law; 
22.	A Persistent Disjunction: Parallel Realms of Law in India; 
23.	Reflections on Law & Meaningfulness in a North Indian Hindu Village; 
24.	Index of Cases; 
25.	Index

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