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“The writers on Dharma Shastra meant by ‘dharma’ not a creed or religion but a mode of life or a code of conduct, which regulated a person’s work and activities as a member of society and as an individual and was intended to bring about the gradual development of a person and to enable him to reach what was deemed to be the goal of human existence.”
― A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State
― A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State
“Despite the carving out of Pakistan (and what is now Bangladesh) in the name of political Islam, and the secessionist insurgency seen in Kashmir due to similar motivations, so-called secular India did not adopt common personal laws. This happened even though Nehru changed, and rightly so, the Hindu personal laws by passing the Hindu code bills in 1955–1956. While the Hindu laws were made progressive, Muslim laws were left untouched.”
― A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State
― A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State
Nitesh’s 2024 Year in Books
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