SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

Name:

Miss Mridhula Dharshini Pillay

Email address:

200754@soas.ac.uk

Thesis title:

India and Malaysia: Accommodating the Religious 'Others'

Year of Study:

3rd

Internal Supervisors

• Alexander Fischer
• Werner F Menski

PhD Research

My research is primarily concerned with the state's management and accommodation of religious diversity.

My research examines particular moments of communal conflict in Indian and Malaysian post-independence history.  In doing so, it focuses on specific case law relating to communal conflict and violence, judicial and academic analysis of this case law, state policy initiatives and the impact of these initiatives in the post-9/11 period in both India and Malaysia.

PhD Conferences

Presenting a paper on:

Accommodating the 'Green' in the Kite: Religion in Conflict in 'many-sided' India   International Workshop on Global Trends in Law and Religion in the 21st century, School of Law, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, November 2011.