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Book Review l Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942–1962 by Kalyani Ramnath (Stanford University Press 2023)
No full textBook Review l Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia by Kalyani Ramnat
The Paradox of Juridical Secularism: An Illustration Through the Cases of Sabarimala and Hijab
No full textSecularism in India was imagined in cognisance of religion\u27s entrenchment in the public life of the country as well as in people’s identities. This form of secularism was made possible within the Constitution of India through a broad framing of religious freedoms that was limited by statist concerns such as public order, morality, and health. In the face of rising majoritarianism, secular values are under serious challenge, impacting the right to religious freedom and expression. In the face of this challenge, this article assesses the judiciary’s engagement with religion on issues of discrimination against women. The article contends that the judiciary’s approach to religious adjudication does not only restrict religious freedom but also works against the attainment of the fundamental constitutional ideals of equality and nondiscrimination. It juxtaposes the Sabarimala Case (2018) and the Hijab Case (2022) to illustrate the contradictions that arise from the afore-stated judicial determination in the context of the prevailing crisis of secularism in India
The Indiscipline of the Streets
No full textThis essay is part of the book review forum: Streets in Motion: The Making of Infrastructure, Property, and Political Culture in Twentieth-century Calcutta by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhya
Engaging Bhakti as/in Translation: An Outline of a Methodological Approach to Analyse Ranade\u27s Views about the Saints and Prophets of Maharashtra
No full textThe analysis in this article suggests that M G Ranade’s reflections in his essay about the ‘Saints and Prophets of Maharashtra’ are significant because they offer a site to unravel shifts from a premodern to a modern conception of moral order on the Indian subcontinent, in the context of the encounter with colonialism. For its role in allowing such unravelling, and for the way it permits attention to hitherto neglected dimensions of Ranade’s comparison between bhakti and the Protestant Reformation, this article argues for the value of investigating Ranade’s reflections through the framework of translation. While doing the above, the article also seeks to gesture toward methodological issues involved in the study of ideas and clusters of concepts that bear transtemporal resonance and relevance
