God’s law: India’s Muslim civil code and the crisis of secularism in India from the Constituent Assembly to Shah Bano

• In Event: When Religion and State Merge: Religious Nationalisms

Brief Overview

I explore the limitations of strategically ambiguous constitutional compromises in diverse democracies through India’s failure to enact a uniform civil code, which reveals an insurmountable tension between collective cultural and individual rights.

Author

• Britt Leake, University of California, Berkeley