Geetanjali Srikantan (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a governable phenomenon. This book investigates the identification and regulation of religion through an intellectual history of law's creation of religion from the colonial to the post-colonial. Moving beyond conventional explanations on the failure of secularism and the secular state, it argues that the impasse in the legal regulation of religion lies in the methodologies and frameworks used by British colonial administrators in identifying and...
Judicial debates on the regulation of religion in post-colonial India have been characterised by the inability of courts to identify religion as a gov...
