Constitutions

India’s anti-conversion laws betray Constitution’s promise of religious freedom

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India’s anti-conversion laws betray Constitution’s promise of religious freedom

[ad_1] Free India elected to protect and uphold the right to religious conscience. These incorporated the freedoms to choose, practice and propagate one’s religious faith. This, after searching and sometimes bitter debates in India’s constituent assembly in the shadow of cataclysmic religious riots during India’s partition in 1947. The citizens’ freedom of religion, however, was … Read more

The Constitution’s emancipatory promises on caste remain elusive

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The Constitution’s emancipatory promises on caste remain elusive

[ad_1] For a series of 11 short treatises by leading scholars on the ideas of free India’s Constitution, we thought it fitting to invite India’s highly regarded scholar Anand Teltumbde – also one who recently served time as a prisoner of conscience – to write the closing book in the series. In this chain of … Read more