2:31Can Uniform Civil Code Disadvantage Muslim Women?
Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
In the 1950s, Miya Muslims in Assam declared Assamese as their mother tongue, urged by Congress to help make it the state language. Today, they are vilified and not recognized as Assamese. Their loyalty turned into erasure. This is what Dr. Yasmin Saikia calls "ethical and historical loneliness."
2:31Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
2:32The Uniform Civil Code imposes a dominant majoritarian framework (the Hindutva framework) on all citizens of the country. Sania Ismailee dismantles the idea that uniformity can lead to substantive equality. The first episode of Emerging Perspectives is now live:
1:35“There has never been a discussion on why a community is so politically deprived.”
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