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1 online resource (viii, 362 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Most of the papers presented at a conference held at Bloomington in 1999; some previously published. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Legal polycentricity -- India.
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Legal polycentricity. |
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India. |
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Religion and state -- India.
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Religion and state. |
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Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India.
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Religious minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Religious minorities. |
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Domestic relations -- India.
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Domestic relations. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Larson, Gerald James.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Religion and personal law in secular India. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001 0253339901 (DLC) 2001002122 |
| ISBN |
0253108683 (electronic book) |
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9780253108685 (electronic book) |
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0253339901 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253339904 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253214807 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253214805 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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