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Question of Community: Religious Groups and Colonial Law - Hardcover

Shodhan, Amrita

 
9788185604435: Question of Community: Religious Groups and Colonial Law
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8185604436 ISBN 13: 9788185604435
Publisher: Bhatkal & Sen, 2001

Synopsis

Taking two famous and popular legal trials in Bombay, the Aga Khan Case and the Maharaj Libel Case, the author shows that the Indian court worked with a 'notion of group membership as religious community where experts, Westernized Indians or British scholars, elicited the "truth".' She further asserts that the colonial judiciary's denial of the polities' ability to govern themselves and their simultaneous governance by the colonial state meant that individuals were identified in law or in the courts with a marked religious community. Such a legal system defines society as 'religious' and traps social groups into wider fundamentalist identifications.

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About the Author

Amrita Shodhan is an independent scholar. She received her Ph.D. in South Asian Languages and Civilization from the University of Chicago.

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Publisher
Bhatkal & Sen
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8185604436
ISBN 13 
9788185604435
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
222