Reclaiming Narratives: Dalit Literature and the Legal Recognition of Historical Injustices
Introduction Dalit literature, born of the lived lives of India’s historically subordinated masses, is both witness and resistance. Emerging from the day-to-day lives of caste-based exclusion, humiliation, and structural violence, these works reverse dominant literary and historical narratives long marginalizing…
Language Rights and Coercive Federalism: Examining the Centre-State Conflict Over the Three-Language Formula of the new education policy
Introduction This article explores the intricate nexus between language rights and coercive federalism in India against the backdrop of the Centre-State dispute over the Three-Language Formula in the new education policy. Analyzing how India’s federal framework, linguistic accommodations, and power-sharing…
Religion Specific Personal Laws and Gender Discrimination: A Study of Women’s Unequal Legal Rights
ABSTRACT Religion-specific personal laws in India generate the endemic problem of gender discrimination, especially of women, in marriage, divorce, inheritance, and maintenance. The laws, rooted in colonial legal codes and perpetuated by the legal pluralism that has followed in their…
