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020			_a9781009317757
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100			_aJohn, Mathew _943
245			_aIndia's Communal Constitution: Law, Religion and the Making of a People
260			_aNew York _bAleph _c2022
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520			_aThis book speaks to debates on law, constitutionalism, and the contested terrain of political identity in modern India. Set against the overwhelmingly liberal design of the Indian Constitution, the book demonstrates a tendency in the Constitution and its practice to identify the Indian people in parochial and communal terms. This tendency is identified as India's Communal Constitution and its imprint on contemporary constitutional practice is illustrated by drawing on the constitutional practice as it addresses religious freedom, personal law, minority rights and the identification of caste groups.
650			_aLaw _944
650			_aCommunal constitution _945
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