UNIFORM CIVIL CODE IN INDIA: READY-STEADY-GO?

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Once in a Blue Moon Academia

Posted on 11/07/2023 (GMT 15:50 hrs)

ABSTRACT

The following paper is an attempt at exposing the hidden agenda of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) as it is supposed to be implemented by the BJP government in India. It starts with the experience of the domain of the externally threatened subjectivity and moves on to criticize the UCC by reflecting on its communal intentions, targeting solely the “other” Islamic Law. It goes on to focus on the intersectional issues of property-inheritance, gender question, caste dynamic, variegated food-habits, plurilingual situation etc. In doing so, it also throws light on the uncontradictory contradictions within the ambit of the “Hindu” umbrella, and how it prevents the “Hindus” from having any kind of uniformity for themselves. The authors’ semantic connotation of the term “UCC” is totally different from the Saffronized Hindutva’s politico-religious construal of the same, aiming at the…

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