Although numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai's
Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of …

What happens when courts reach “good” outcomes through “bad” reasoning? Are there
limits to consequentialist jurisprudence? The Indian Supreme Court's recent decision in …

Western religious liberty advocates tend to focus on restrictions placed on minority religious
communities, particularly when advocating abroad, that is, outside of the country in which …

Mumbai is one of the world's megacities often depicted through its intensely crowded
suburban trains and hours-long traffic jams. The city is now in the midst of a huge transport …

Focusing on complex entanglements of religion and gender from a diversity of perspectives,
this book explores how women enact agencies in transcultural Hindu and Buddhist settings …

This article explores how Hindu deities and places of worship are understood as legal
persons in the Supreme Court of India's (2019) and the Allahabad High Court's (2014) …

This edited volume illuminates the nuances of women's religious and ritual agency in
transcultural contexts and through intersectional feminist analyses. The editors bring …

This thesis develops a psychological and socio-cultural understanding of theexperience of
menstruation in urban societies. The first study explores the socio-culturalconstruction of …

The world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy are admittedly different
places. One is geographically expansive and demographically changing; it features a …

The critical role played by feminist networks within Muslim women's movements is
investigated. This paper examines the Bebaak Collective's organising work to build …