Disempowering Women and Constructing Muslims as ‘Other’: A Study of India’s Anti-Conversion Legislations

IF 0.5 4区 社会学 Q3 WOMENS STUDIES Indian Journal of Gender Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-25 DOI:10.1177/09715215231158122
Mohammad Jamshed, M. R. Karim, S. Banu
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As a constitutional democracy, India remains committed to the cherished values of individual liberty and freedom of conscience which form the core of the fundamental rights enshrined in our constitution. However, in the last few years, we have witnessed a marked departure and foundational shift in the pursuit of these values. What we see in terms of the curtailment of women’s freedom, dictating personal relationship choices and maligning Muslims as a danger to Hindu women’s honour, delivers a severe blow to our pluralistic ethos and the cherished values of coexistence. The recently enacted legislations dressed up as anti-conversion laws to criminalise love choices bear a clear reflection of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws in many ways. Against the background of the state making intrusions into private spaces, denying the right to choose partners and acting as an oppressive surveillance agency, this study argues that these laws subvert the vision of our constitutional democracy and defy various judicial orders. It examines the literature on Hindu rights for women, analyses the contents of the legislation considering the contemporary discourse, to argue that these laws amount to undoing our achievements as a secular modern nation in the last seven decades.
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剥夺妇女权力与穆斯林“他者”建构——印度反皈依立法研究
作为一个宪政民主国家,印度仍然致力于个人自由和良心自由的宝贵价值观,这些价值观构成了我国宪法所载基本权利的核心。然而,在过去几年里,我们目睹了对这些价值观的追求发生了显著的偏离和根本性的转变。我们所看到的限制妇女自由、支配个人关系选择以及诽谤穆斯林对印度教妇女荣誉的威胁,严重打击了我们的多元精神和珍视的共存价值观。最近颁布的立法伪装成反皈依法,将爱情选择定为犯罪,在很多方面都清楚地反映了纳粹德国的纽伦堡法律。在国家入侵私人空间、剥夺选择伴侣的权利以及充当压迫性监视机构的背景下,本研究认为,这些法律颠覆了我们的宪政民主愿景,并藐视各种司法命令。它审查了有关印度教妇女权利的文献,分析了考虑到当代话语的立法内容,认为这些法律相当于破坏了我们作为一个世俗现代国家在过去70年中取得的成就。
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期刊介绍: The Indian Journal of Gender Studies is geared towards providing a more holistic understanding of society. Women and men are not compared mechanically. Rather, gender categories are analysed with a view to changing social attitudes and academic biases which obstruct a holistic understanding of contributions to the family, community and a wider polity. The journal focuses, among other issues, on violence as a phenomenon, the social organisation of the family, the invisibility of women"s work, institutional and policy analyses, women and politics, and motherhood and child care.
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