Legal History Cluster – Global perspective on legal history (India)

The legal history research cluster is delighted to present the first in an occasional series of research seminars, ‘Global Perspectives on Legal History’, on the legal history of India:

• Ummal Fayiza, ‘More Than Just Shah Bano’s Lawyer: Danial Latifi and Muslim Women’s Post-Divorce Maintenance Rights’ focuses on Danial Latifi’s lifelong advocacy, best-known through his role in the Shah Bano case (1985) and Muslim women’s post-divorce maintenance rights.

• Tony Meacham, ‘The Indian 'mutinies' - the roots of Indian secularism through its battles for independence’ explores the linkages between the 1813 Charter Act which allowed Christian missionaries to proselytise in India, subsequent ‘mutinies’, and the later creation of a secular India.