In recent years, questions about religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities have reemerged as issues of concern in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This conference brings together a series of academic and policy experts to consider how and why issues first debated during the crafting of these countries’ constitutions—including the place of Islam in Pakistan, the question of cow protection in India, the meaning of secularism in Bangladesh, the significance of Article 370 in Kashmir, and the status of Buddhism in Sri Lanka—have returned to South Asia with greater urgency and consequence.
