Author: Indian Law Commission
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Copies of the Special Reports of the Indian Law Commissioners
Author: Indian Law Commission
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Copies of the special reports of the Indian law commissioners
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Reports from the Commissioners
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The Indian Penal Code, as Originally Framed in 1837
Author: Indian Law Commission
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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A Collection of the Public General Acts for the regulation of Railways ... 1838-1851, etc
Author: England
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Indian Law Reports
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
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Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Journals of the House of Lords
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
Slandering the Sacred
Author: J. Barton Scott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682490X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
"Although blasphemy is as old as religion itself, its history has begun a new chapter in recent years. Slanders of the sacred are everywhere, as in the highly visible Charlie Hebdo case, with "religion" sometimes appearing as little more than a membrane for giving and receiving offense. Where some explain the contemporary preoccupation with blasphemy by pointing to the interconnectedness of twenty-first-century media, J. Barton Scott argues that we need to look deeper into the past at the colonial-era infrastructures that continue to shape our globalized world. Slandering the Sacred examines one such powerful and widely influential legal infrastructure: Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code. What would it look like to take Section 295A as a text in, of, and for religion-a connective tissue interlinking multiple religious worlds? To answer this question, Scott explores the cultural, intellectual, and legal pre-history of this law, moving between colonial India and imperial Britain as well as between secular law and modern religion. Section 295A reveals a set of problems with no easy solution. It places a chill on free speech, extends the power of the state over civil society, and exacerbates the culture of religious controversy that it was designed to fix. The legislators who enacted the law foresaw the damage it could do and they enacted it anyway, as a half-despairing measure to curb injurious speech. Their problems are still our problems. The twenty-first century has compounded modernity's free-speech headache. Section 295A opens a useful window onto these problems precisely because it is a problem, too. Its history is a tale about the afterlives of the holy dead, the legal definition of the anglophone category "religion," and the transmissibility of outrage as bureaucratized affect"--
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022682490X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
"Although blasphemy is as old as religion itself, its history has begun a new chapter in recent years. Slanders of the sacred are everywhere, as in the highly visible Charlie Hebdo case, with "religion" sometimes appearing as little more than a membrane for giving and receiving offense. Where some explain the contemporary preoccupation with blasphemy by pointing to the interconnectedness of twenty-first-century media, J. Barton Scott argues that we need to look deeper into the past at the colonial-era infrastructures that continue to shape our globalized world. Slandering the Sacred examines one such powerful and widely influential legal infrastructure: Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code. What would it look like to take Section 295A as a text in, of, and for religion-a connective tissue interlinking multiple religious worlds? To answer this question, Scott explores the cultural, intellectual, and legal pre-history of this law, moving between colonial India and imperial Britain as well as between secular law and modern religion. Section 295A reveals a set of problems with no easy solution. It places a chill on free speech, extends the power of the state over civil society, and exacerbates the culture of religious controversy that it was designed to fix. The legislators who enacted the law foresaw the damage it could do and they enacted it anyway, as a half-despairing measure to curb injurious speech. Their problems are still our problems. The twenty-first century has compounded modernity's free-speech headache. Section 295A opens a useful window onto these problems precisely because it is a problem, too. Its history is a tale about the afterlives of the holy dead, the legal definition of the anglophone category "religion," and the transmissibility of outrage as bureaucratized affect"--