Tag: Article 25
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Intolerance in India: An unending saga
By Anusmita Mazumder, Department of Law, University of Calcutta. We open the newspaper everyday to find several instances of social injustice and criminal offences. However, this sudden uprising of a “new social evil” in the guise of religious intolerance in the country has shaken its secular pillars.
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Uniform Civil Code: Time to bring it into force?
By Kanishka Mishra, University of Delhi. When Uniform Civil Code will get its flesh and blood, it will be a unified legislation combining personal laws of various communities of India and forming a singular law which would include provisions for marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption, maintenance, property, succession and so on. As of now, Hindus and Muslims are…
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Anti-Conversion Laws in India: A Critical Analysis
By Chandan Mohanty, KIIT Law School, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. India, the largest democratic country in the world, inhabits people from different religions. The majority population in India is Hindu. Muslims, Christians and few other religions also have a significant number of followers. The Preamble of the Indian Constitution says that India is a secular country. The…