2:31Can Uniform Civil Code Disadvantage Muslim Women?
Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
On May 22, 1987, a night of terror gripped Hashimpura in Meerut as Provincial Armed Constabulary officers rounded up 42 Muslim men, drove them out of their locality, and brutally killed them, marking one of India’s deadliest custodial massacres. This animated documentary by Nous Network traces th…
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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