1. Introduction ? Communities and courts: religion and law in modern India PART 1 Religion and Law: Competing Sovereignties?
2. Framing religion in constitutional politics: a view from Indian Constitutional Law
3. Ritual death in a secular state: the Jain practice of Sallekhana PART 2 The Contested Field of Muslim Personal Law
4. Codification of Islamic Law in South Asia, or how not to do comparative law
5. Shari’a politics, ?ulam? and Laity Ijtih?d: fields of normativity and conviviality PART 3 Communities and Conflicts
6. Religion, law and state policing: accusations, inquests and arbitration of religious conflicts in colonial India
7. The mosque as juristic person: law, public order and inter-religious disputes in India
8. Art, law and the violence of offence taking
9. Secular moral/legal commitments revisited: an interlude by way of afterword