Call For Papers: AMU Journal On Equality, Justice And Fraternity In Contemporary India [Submit by 15th May 2021]

Who can Apply?

The volume is inviting contributions from scholars and researchers in law and justice, public administration, human rights experts, and exclusion studies.

Themes:

• Constitutional Guarantees of Minority Rights: Foundations, Promises and Assurances towards the Development of a Peaceful Society (Issues may be discussed concerning Constituent Assembly Debates and later developments)
• State Policies for Governance and Action: Assessment and Evaluation of Attitudes and Schemes in Minority Perspective.
• Concerns about Minority Education Rights, Protection of Faith and Promotion of Culture: Current Status, Trends and Expectations from the State.
• Administration of Criminal Justice: Issues Concerning Entrapping of Members of Minorities and Underprivileged Groups.
• Vulnerability and Insecurity Faced by Minorities: State Responsibility for Prevention of Communal Violence and Promotion of Strategies for Harmony.

Sub-themes:

• The Constitution makers' vision of secularism and pluralism as a functional concept
• Equal citizenry & Non-Discrimination on the ground of faith.
• Right to retain identities of faith and group
• Right to education and to retain and promote culture and faith
• Throwing open all public offices for all belonging to any religion, creed, or caste
• Prohibition of discrimination by the executive or any state body or person in position based on religion
• Respect for places of worship
• Protection of religious endowments
• Promotion and preservation of the rich harmony of Indian culture
• Freedom of religion as assured to all religious denominations
• Prohibition of state to promote any particular religion
• The expectation of an alert judiciary to contain the executive and legislature from overstepping their limits
• Any other issue relevant to the theme.

Submission Guidelines:

• Original, unpublished research papers in any core and sub-themes humanities are welcome up to a Word limit of 10,000, including an abstract of 200-250 words and Six to eight keywords.
• All figures and tables must be prepared in MS Office (Word/ Excel). Contributors are cautioned against plagiarism and excessive self-referencing.
• Figures, graphs, and tables must be used sparingly to avoid repetition of content.
• All supplementary files such as figures, tables, maps must be provided in MS Office (Word/ Excel) or other editable formats, wherever possible.
• The mode of citation should be APA (APA Format Citation Guide Available here).

How to Submit?

• The Article must be submitted to Dr M.Z.M.Nomani (zafarnomaniamu@gmail.com ), Faculty of Law. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
• Last Date of Submission: 15th May 2021

Publication:

• There are no publication charges.
• The publisher will offer a token honorarium of ₹2000 to contributors of the best and selected paper.

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