2:31Can Uniform Civil Code Disadvantage Muslim Women?
Neutral laws can have unequal effects on religious minorities, affecting education, employment and social mobility.
The growing number of survey petitions on mosques and dargahs exposes the grim rise in attacks on Muslim religious sites. This is happening despite the Places of Worship Act. Taken together with the new Waqf Act, widely critiqued to be a tool for grabbing Muslim properties, the question is: what …
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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