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Nation and Family - Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India (Hardcover)
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Nation and Family - Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India (Hardcover)
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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, sect, or ethnic group. The book shows why India's
postcolonial policy-makers changed the personal laws they inherited
less than the rulers of Turkey and Tunisia, but far more than those
of Algeria, Syria and Lebanon, and increased women's rights for the
most part, contrary to the trend in Pakistan, Iran, Sudan and
Nigeria since the 1970s. Subramanian demonstrates that discourses
of community and features of state-society relations shape the
course of personal law. Ruling elites' discourses about the nation,
its cultural groups and its traditions interact with the
state-society relations that regimes inherit and the projects of
regimes to change their relations with society. These interactions
influence the pattern of multiculturalism, the place of religion in
public policy and public life, and the forms of regulation of
family life. The book shows how the greater engagement of political
elites with initiatives among the Hindu majority and the
predominant place they gave Hindu motifs in discourses about the
nation shaped Indian multiculturalism and secularism, contrary to
current understandings. In exploring the significant role of
communitarian discourses in shaping state-society relations and
public policy, it takes "state-in-society" approaches to
comparative politics, political sociology, and legal studies in new
directions.
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