This book examines how the interactions of parties and society continually reshape ethnic identities and redirect ethnic politics. By exploring the course taken by the Dravidian parties of South India, it shows how citizens and leaders may act to preserve tolerance and democracy amidst considerable ethnic mobilization, even if governments are unable or unwilling to do so.
This book examines how the interactions of parties and society continually reshape ethnic identities and redirect ethnic politics. By exploring the co...
The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life. Nation and Family is the most comprehensive study to date of the public discourses, processes of social mobilization, legislation and case law that formed India's three major personal law systems, which govern Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. It for the first time systematically compares Indian experiences to those in a wide range of other countries that inherited personal laws specific to religious group,...
The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific g...