Anand Swamy and Tirthankar Roy on Law and the Economy
Ideas of India
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The Extractive State in India
Colonial states were trying to create abroad legitimacy, and finding out the sections of population where that legitimacy could stand. The way that was implemented was to incorporate a lot of religious injunctions and ideas into law making. That has been a legacy passed on from colonial times to the independent times. But independent states hase been struggling to deal with it. It's very hard to say that religious references will be completely invalid from now on. You cannot do that. And you cannot do that also because the constitution rantees some space to personal law.
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