Filing Religion -State, Hinduism, and Courts of Law

Description

The courts are crucial actors in the considerable transformations that religions have undergone in south Asian Societies over the last few centuries. Not only are they crucial sites for the expression of conflicting claims and values, they provide renewed tools and possibilities for the legal landscape that is both a reflection of social and political aspirations and changes, and result of the judges’ own engagement in the articulation of political and religious interests in South Asia today.