Religion and Personal Law in Secular India

Gerald James Larson is Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilization and Director of the India Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of India's Agony over Religion and Classical Samkhya: An Interpretation of Its History and Meaning and co-editor of Interpreting across Boundaries: New Essays in Comparative Philosophy and The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, vol. 4, Samkhya: A Dualist Tradition in Indian Philosophy.

• Preliminary Table of Contents: PrefaceIntroduction: The Secular State in a Religious Society Gerald James LarsonPart 1. The Secular State and Legal Pluralism: The Current Debate and Its Historical Antecedents1. Religion, Personal Law and Identity Granville Austin2. Religious Minorities and the Law Ruma Pal3. Living with Difference in India: Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. RudolphPart 2. Religious Endowments, Reservations Law, and Criminal Law4. Religious and Charitable Endowments and a Uniform Civil Code John H. Mansfield5. Personal Law and Reservations: Volition and Religion in Contemporary India Laura Dudley Jenkins6. The Uniform Civil Code Debate: Lessons from the Criminal Procedures Arvind VermaPart 3. Personal Law and Issues of Gender7. Gender Implications for a Uniform Civil Code Robert D. Baird8. The Personal and the Political: Indian Women and Inheritance Law Srimati Basu9. Colonialism, Nationalism, and Gendered Legal Subjectivities: Observations on the Historical Destruction of Separate Legal Regimes Kunal M. Parker10. Who Was Roop Kanwar? Sati, Law, Religion, and Post-Colonial Feminism in Contemporary India Paul Courtright and Namita Goswami11. "Where Will She Go? What Will She Do?" Paternalism towards Women in the Administration of Muslim Family Law in Contemporary India Sylvia VatukPart 4. Cross-Cultural Perspectives12. Affirmative Action in the United States and the Reservation System in India: Some Comparative Perspectives Kevin Brown13. Personal Law Systems and Religious Conflict: A Comparison of India and Israel Marc Galanter and Jayanth Krishnan14. The Road to Xanadu: India's Quest for Secularism Rajeev DhavanSome Continuing Issues William D. PopkinBibliographical Note Gerald James LarsonContributorsIndex