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Ever since the drafting of the Indian Constitution, there has been a political debate in the country as to whether India, being a democratic and secular state, should have a Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The debate, while outlining discourses of communalism versus secularism in the country, also focuses on whether there should be a centralised view of the legal system in a given society or a decentralised view, both horizontally and vertically."As most of the ...
This book constitutes a comprehensive and in-depth study of federalism and devolution in the Sri Lankan context. The author leads us on a journey of discovery spanning various phases of the evolution of the problem, from pre-independence Sri Lanka to the victory of the Kumaratunga government in 1994, and its subsequent failure to implement the much promised federal structure for the country. How and why the Kumaratunga government failed is the main topic of this ...
Religion and politics are always interconnected. The phenomenon is more evident in developing societies where political units are generally not individual citizens as is the case in industrial societies but they are social groups and identities. Recent developments in India marked by the unprecedented rise in religio-centric politics underscore the point. The process is epitomized by the rise of Hindu-chauvinistic BJP to the centre-stage and its subsequent ...