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245			_aReligion and Law in Independent / _cedited by Robert D Baird
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew Delhi: _bLordson Publishers Pvt. Ltd, _c2005
300			_a518p.; _c22cm.
500			_aInclude Indexes.
505			_a1. 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.
650			_aLaw
650			_aReligion
650			_aReligion and state India
700			_aBaird, Robert D _eEditor
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