Citizens for Justice and Peace
Gita as India’s National Book?: Bizarre Judgment Backs Hindutva’s Assault on Indian Constitution.
30-Aug-2007
The Gita as India’s National Book?: Bizarre Judgment Backs Hindutva’s Assault on Indian Constitution. By Gautam Kumar Justice S.N.Srivastava of the Allahabad High Court, who retired earlier this month, is no stranger to controversy. Some months ago, he stirred a hornet’s nest by ruling that Muslims in Uttar Pradesh were not a minority, although they form only around a fifth of the population of…