Khurshid Ahmed

Khurshid Ahmed appears in Settler bet: a West Bank flashpoint as a 71-year-old Muslim social activist in Uttarakhand who objects that the state’s legal changes contradict Quranic dictates. The source uses his case to make Uniform Civil Code in India concrete at the level of religious duty and ordinary family law.

Ahmed’s role is to show why the civil-code debate is not only a constitutional or party-politics argument. For Indian Muslims, the same statute can be presented by the state as equal citizenship and experienced by some believers as coercive interference with Muslim Personal Law in India.

Connections

• Uttarakhand, India, and Indian Muslims - setting and community context.
• Kira Huju and The Intelligence - correspondent and show context.
• Uniform Civil Code in India, Muslim Personal Law in India, and Majoritarian Legal Uniformity - concepts connected to his case.