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- From: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca
- Subject: Religion based laws in India
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:28:43 GMT
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- raman@cs.utexas.edu (Raman Rajagopal) says in soc.culture.tamil:
- > Hindu institutions have to pay income taxes while non-hindu institutions
- > are exempt. (muslim)
- > Apparently, the muslim religion doesn't allow for alimony for the
- > wife in cases of divorce.
- > However, the Indian government has now created a board, funded
- > with public tax money, to pay the divorced muslim woman alimony.
- > the islamic religion allows polygamy.
-
- Same thing in islamic countries.
-
- I suppose India can be called as an Islamic country, with majority
- Hindu population.
-
- Nehru and his dynasty, whose vision was always a united India and Pakistan,
- kept these laws of British colonial days, just in case.
-
- On the other hand, I think Pakistan has modernized its laws.
-
- KS
-