Triple Talaq Research Paper
In the history of humankind, many things that were discriminatory were passed off as legal, such as apartheid, slavery and colonialism until they were finally abolished. Because the people who made them legal were powerful and did so to serve their narrow self-interest. Therefore, justice was not a matter of legality but a matter of power. The oppressed classes, when they have an overwhelming desire to get emancipated, fight back to get the discriminatory laws overturned. That is what exactly happened in case of ‘Triple Talaq’ also.
The Supreme Court, at last, delivered its verdict on the scourged practice of ‘Triple Talaq’ among the Muslim community, which emboldens a Muslim man to violate the sanctity of marriage by deserting his wife in a unilateral and patently unjust manner. The Triple Talaq dehumanizes women, enslaves them to their husbands and deprives them of their dignity. Though this is a welcome verdict, the very fact that it took 70 years for the independent India to reform an utterly discriminatory law is deeply saddening. It also shows how arduous and painstakingly slow it is to bring about any reformation in Indian society.
Indian women, irrespective of the religion …show more content…
The main reason behind the continued injustice meted out to the Muslim women appears to be political. In India, the Muslim clergy, to tighten their grip over the community, make unceasing efforts to drive it towards more conservatism and even try to unduly influence the Muslim community’s voting behavior. The fatwas issued by Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, to vote for certain political parties is too well-known. Therefore, in India, the political parties, which treat the Muslim community as a mere vote bank, compete to grab the vote bank by appeasing the conservative Muslim
The Supreme Court, at last, delivered its verdict on the scourged practice of ‘Triple Talaq’ among the Muslim community, which emboldens a Muslim man to violate the sanctity of marriage by deserting his wife in a unilateral and patently unjust manner. The Triple Talaq dehumanizes women, enslaves them to their husbands and deprives them of their dignity. Though this is a welcome verdict, the very fact that it took 70 years for the independent India to reform an utterly discriminatory law is deeply saddening. It also shows how arduous and painstakingly slow it is to bring about any reformation in Indian society.
Indian women, irrespective of the religion …show more content…
The main reason behind the continued injustice meted out to the Muslim women appears to be political. In India, the Muslim clergy, to tighten their grip over the community, make unceasing efforts to drive it towards more conservatism and even try to unduly influence the Muslim community’s voting behavior. The fatwas issued by Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, to vote for certain political parties is too well-known. Therefore, in India, the political parties, which treat the Muslim community as a mere vote bank, compete to grab the vote bank by appeasing the conservative Muslim