Sites of Conflict in the Indian Secular State: Secularism, Caste and Religious Conversion.
This article presents an exploration into the controversies and difficulties surrounding the judicial decisions of India concerning religious conversion, the caste system and human civil rights. The primarily secularist ideology of the Indian government is highlighted, but contrasted against the lar...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Church & State Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 251 - 277 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Spring2007
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