Abstract
While a genealogical exploration of the dichotomy between the real (legal) and the Ideal (justice) may provide us with an understanding of the historical and ideological relationship(s) between the two, a focus on this binary alone acts to conceal the multiplicities inherent in each of these terms. Just as there exist multiple manifestations of legalities/realities, these manifestations correspond to diverse notions of the ideal and justice. And these realities and ideals overlap and conflict, and affect each other’s creation, transformation or transplantation. A historical glance at Pakistan’s current Blasphemy Laws provides us with an insight on how the real/legal emerging from a particular notion of the ideal/justice was mediated and transplanted through Colonialism and became the real/legal manifestation of a different kind in a different locality.
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