EDITORS
Hilal Ahmed is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India. He works on political Islam, Muslim politics of representation, and politics of symbols in South Asia.
His first book, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation (Routledge, 2014), explores these themes to evolve an interdisciplinary approach to study Muslim politics. His recent works, Siyasi Muslims: A story of Political Islam in India (2019) and Democratic Accommodations: Minorities in Contemporary India (with Peter R deSouza, and Sanjeer Alam, 2019), elaborate these themes and explain the discursively constituted nature of contemporary Muslim political discourse in India. He is currently working on a book project on the politics of Muslim political representation in postcolonial India. He is also editing a Hindi Reader of Sudipta Kaviraj’s writings. He is Associate Editor, South Asian Studies, journal of the British Association of South Asian Studies. He was awarded the Institute of Advanced Studies-Nantes (IAS-Nantes, France) Fellowship, 2018—19, the Rajya Sabha Fellowship (2015—2016), the Asia Fellow Award (2008/2010), the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship (2009), the Ford Foundation- IFP Fellowship (2002), the ATRI-Charities Aid Foundation Fellowship (2001), and UGC Senior Research Fellowship (1999) and the UGC Junior Research Fellowship (1997).K. N. Jehangir is Faculty Member (Students’ Mentor) at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad, India. He completed his postgraduation (1969) and PhD (1989) from the University of Calcutta. His areas of research interest have been gender studies, minorities, Muslim women, health systems and social sciences. He has been associated with several research organisations. He has worked at the Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi (1970—73); Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi (1973—2012); and retired as Director (International Collaboration). He was associated with Council for Social Development, New Delhi (2017—19) as Consultant (Academic, Administration and Finance).
His major publications are Status of Muslim Women in West Bengal, 1991, Minorities in India (ed), 2007, Social Science Research in India and the World (ed), 2015, and Health System Strengthening in India (ed), 2017.R. K. Mishra is Senior Professor and ONGC Subir Raha Chair Professor at Institute of Public Enterprise, India. He is a graduate of International Management Programme, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He has been a Fellow of British Council and Commonwealth Secretariat. He has had research stints at London Business School and Maison Des Sciences De L’ Homme, Paris. He has taught at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and was a visiting professor at Maison Des Sciences De L’ Homme, Paris, University of Technology Mara, Malaysia, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of the UN Task Force on Standards of Excellence in Public Administration and Education. He is a member of the editorial boards of many international and national journals published. He has supervised doctoral research for several universities in public administration, management, economics and commerce and has taught at the National Management Programme, GoI-MDI, MPhil and MBA programmes for more than three decades. His current interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate governance, modernisation of state, civil service systems, financial administration, environmental administration, privatisation, SOE reforms, restructuring, poverty management, and good governance.
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- 7 Nomination of the Jews to the Curias A General Law of Constantine the Great 11 December 321
- 12 Confiscation of the Properties of Christian Proselytes
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Bibliography
- Approaches and the state of the field
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- THE DIGEST
- Contents
- This book is offered as an aid to the disinterested study of religion.
- 16 Interdiction on Christians from Participating in Pagan, Jewish and Manichaean Cults
- 58 Privileged Status of Orthodox Children Inheriting from Heretical, Jewish, and Samaritan Parents
- 50 Prohibition on Public Entertainment on Christian Holidays
- 44 Regulation of the Acquisition and Possession of Christian Slaves by Jews