1st Edition
Communities and Courts Religion and Law in Modern India
1. Introduction – Communities and courts: religion and law in modern India
Manisha Sethi
PART 1 Religion and Law: Competing Sovereignties?
2. Framing religion in constitutional politics: a view from Indian Constitutional Law
Mathew John
3. Ritual death in a secular state: the Jain practice of Sallekhana
Manisha Sethi
PART 2 The Contested Field of Muslim Personal Law
4. Codification of Islamic Law in South Asia, or how not to do comparative law
Abhik Majumdar
5. Shari’a politics, ʿulamā and Laity Ijtihād: fields of normativity and conviviality
Neshat Quaiser
PART 3 Communities and Conflicts
6. Religion, law and state policing: accusations, inquests and arbitration of religious conflicts in colonial India
M. Raisur Rahman
7. The mosque as juristic person: law, public order and inter-religious disputes in India
Tanweer Fazal
8. Art, law and the violence of offence taking
Malvika Maheshwari
9. Secular moral/legal commitments revisited: an interlude by way of afterword
Sasheej Hegde
Biography
Manisha Sethi teaches at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. She is the author of Kafkaland: Law, Prejudice and Counterterrorism in India (2014) and Escaping the World: Women Renouncers among Jains (Routledge, 2012).
