The concept of secularism has re-appeared in the Constitution of Bangladesh after 35 years in the wilderness, owing to a High Court judgment of 2005 and the recent Fifteenth Amendment. However, for a principle that has encountered both complete abolition and celebrated revival, constitutional secularism has been noticeably under-debated and under-scrutinised in the highest forums. This book takes the High Court judgment as the starting point in its path of reassessment of the arguments, justifications and elucidations relating to secularism forwarded in the judgment itself. In doing so, an...
The concept of secularism has re-appeared in the Constitution of Bangladesh after 35 years in the wilderness, owing to a High Court judgment of 2005 a...