Class Notes 4 You

UNIFORM CIVIL CODE  Introduction debate revolves around 3 issues Secular nature of Indian state India will become truely secular after adopting UCC. for them secularism means  religious neutrality National Integration so long communities follow personal laws, get special rights,  national integration  is not possible Gender Justice favoured by  feminist result into equality before law, human dignity rejection of customs discriminating towards women most controversial is right of muslim women debated even in constituent assembly Hansa Mehta, KM Munshi, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur  favoured UCC minority members like  Ismail Saheb, Pocker Saheb  opposed UCC Pt Nehru, Ambedkar  favoured UCC thought when conditions become condusive hence UCC placed in part 4 Constitutional provisions art 44: state shall endeavour to introduce Uniform Civil Code endevour shows that govt will take special efforts hence constituent assembly favoured definition European conc...

ROLE OF RELIGION IN POLITICS Introduction known as communalism political ideology where  religion is seen as means for political mobilization since end of CW, rise in religious ideologies as evident in  clash of civilization politics of religion is politics of identity based on  appeals to passion, rather than reason people are emotional about one's identity identity politics is  always violent  and lead to communal violence Evolution of communal violence in India British scholar project Indians as communal. eg- fight between Aurangzeb and Shivaji Romila Thapar : there were no communal riots in India before the advent of British, although there were sectarian violence Evolution of communal politics since revolt of 1857 British started appeasement of Hindus since they believed Muslims to be responsible for revolt to prevent marginalisation of Muslims, Sir Khan promised Muslim loyalty to British since  minorities are better partner, British abandoned Hindus t...

  DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES OF STATE POLICY Introduction Features Part 4 articles-  36-51 borrowed from  Irish  constitution who  copied  it from  Spanish  Constitution, ideas of French, American revolution, thinking of Indian nationalists like Gandhi along with FR, these are  soul/philosophy  of the constitution they were  not justiciable  since  not enough resources  with the country instructions  to legislature, executive and administrator establish  welfare state-  economic and social democracy non-justiciable  but  fundamental  in  governance  (art 37) DPSP are  used  to  interpret  the laws, if law fulfils principle of DPSP and violate FR, it may be considered  reasonable Classification Socialistic  Gandhian  welfare state, democratic socialism, social and economic justice deals with health, wages, children, workers art 38, 39, 39A, 41, 42, 43...