Challenge for Secularism and Democracy

If you want to understand the background to the recent brouhaha over the admission policy of St Stephen’s College, here is the book for you. Contributors to this volume—all eminent legal experts, scholars, judges, administrators, and educationists—weigh in with their analyses of what plagues minority education in South Asia. They describe the historical background of well-known minority educational institutions and the legal framework in which they evolved and developed, and examine the ramifications of various constitutional provisions and judicial decisions pertaining to minority education and what this means for secularism and democracy in India. Tahir Mahmood, a reputed legal scholar in human rights, minority affairs, Islamic studies