Women And The Judiciary In The Asia-Pacific

In 2018, Senior Advocate Indira Jaising appeared before the Supreme Court of India on behalf of petitioners to challenge a ban against women between the ages of ten and fifty (the ages of menstruation) entering the Sabarimala temple as unconstitutional (Jain 2019). The Sabarimala temple in Kerala is a site of worship for the Hindu deity Lord Ayyappa and attracts millions of pilgrims each year, making it one of the world's largest sites of annual pilgrimage--

• • Author: Melissa Crouch
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Oct 26, 2023
• • Number of Pages: 340 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1108999875
• • ISBN-13: 9781108999878