Buddhism and Constitutions in Bhutan

Whitecross, Richard W.; French, Rebecca Redwood; Nathan, Mark A.

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139044134.026

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“…Even more broadly, work on British constitution writer Ivor Jennings reaches across the unraveling empire, from Ceylon and Pakistan in South Asia to Malaya and Sudan beyond (Kumarasingham 2015). Scholars of Himalayan societies have traced the progressive limits imposed on monarchical power by constitutions since the mid-twentieth century in Bhutan (Whitecross 2014) Kalhan 2010;2013, pp. 43-46 and note 22;Malik 2008;Munir 2012;Siddique 2013, pp.…”

Section: South Asia Beyond Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More recently, though, scholars working across South, Southeast, and Inner Asian settings have come together with new force to focus on law (French & Nathan 2014). For them, Buddhist legal studies encompass precolonial Buddhist law in Burma (Lammerts 2014), the legal regulation of Buddhist institutions and players in Sri Lanka (Goonasekera 2014, Schonthal 2014b), Tibetan legal consciousness (French 2014), and Buddhist principles permeating Bhutan's constitution (Whitecross 2014). Against this approach are scholars who suggest that religion has actually played only a minor role in dispute resolution in Buddhist societies like Tibet (for example, Pirie 2013).…”

Section: South Asia Beyond Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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South Asian Legal History

Sharafi¹

2015

Annu. Rev. Law. Soc. Sci.

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Since the late 1990s, there has been an explosion of scholarship on South Asian legal history. This article situates the new literature within the longer tradition of postcolonial South Asian legal studies, focusing on work written by lawyers and historians. The first wave of South Asian legal studies emerged in what historians would call the long 1960s from a group of American lawyers and social scientists working on the legal profession and the experience of dispute resolution in India. The second wave, which has concentrated on the themes of gender and religion in British India, has been shaped by different influences, namely developments in the Indian women's movement and in Indian legal education during the 1980s and 1990s. The survey considers whether the new scholarship is overly focused on elites, the state, the colonial period, and English-language sources. It also identifies regional crosscutting themes that have generated research on South Asia beyond India, particularly constitutionalism, states of emergency, and the legal profession; Buddhist legal studies; gender; and rule-of-law development efforts.

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Section: South Asia Beyond Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%