Is India ready for a Uniform Civil Code?

Any forcible imposition can exacerbate those fissures, that our constitution makers have so deftly, sewn together

After the Supreme Court verdict outlawing the practice of Triple Talaq among the Muslim community in India, the debate on uniform civil code has been sparked off once again. Should India do away with the concept of personal laws and bring-in a uniform civil code for all citizens? In this Business Standard Special, the author takes a look at the reasons the framers of our Constitution deferred the decision to a later stage and tries to answer whether we can make that call now.

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In 2011, Hanna Lerner a Professor  at Tel Aviv University, published a book called Making Constitutions