Filing religion : state, Hinduism, and courts of law /
This volume explores how court actions significantly shape Hinduism in Indian and Nepalese societies, perhaps even more so than the ideology of any political party. How do courts, within the framework of secularism, deal in practice with Hinduism? The approach developed is resolutely historical and...
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New Delhi, India :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Daniela Berti, Gilles Tarabout, and Raphaël Voix
- Birth vs merit : Kerala's temple priests and the courts / Gilles Tarabout
- National gods at court : secularism and the judiciary in Nepal / Chiara Letizia
- Plaintiff deities : ritual honours as fundamental rights in India / Daniela Berti
- Celibate gods and essential practices jurisprudence at Sabrimala, 1991-2011 / Deepa Das Acevedo
- Slaves and sons : the court dynamics of a religious dispute in South India / Ute Hüsken
- The legal making of a Hindu sect : understanding the Tandava case in its context / Raphaël Vox
- British justice and the lustful mahant / France Bhattacharya
- This land is mine : mahants, civil law, and political articulations of Hinduism in twentieth century North India / Malavika Kasturi
- Claiming religious rights from a secular power : judgment regarding the rules of succession to the position of shebait in a North Indian temple / Catherine Clémentin-Ojha
- Recent changes in case law concerning Hindu marriage / Jean-Louis Halpérin
- Unfair advantage? : polygyny and adultery in Indian personal law / Srimati Basu.