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Author Williams, Rina Verma.

Title Postcolonial politics and personal laws : colonial legal legacies and the Indian state / Rina Verma Williams
Published New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 214 pages)
Series Oxford law in India series
Oxford law in India series
Contents Introduction -- Law, nation, state : colonial and postcolonial contexts -- Personal laws and noninterference : the late colonial era, 1920-47 -- Reform and codification of Hindu personal law : The Hindu code bills, 1948-57 -- Noninterference and muslim personal law : Shah Bano and the Muslim Women Bill, 1984-86 -- The end of noninterference? The BJP's rise to power, 1984-2004
Summary Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that there is a complex continuity between the terms of the debate in the postcolonial Indian state and its colonial counterpart
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index
Notes English
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Subject Domestic relations (Hindu law) -- History
Inheritance and succession (Hindu law) -- History
Domestic relations (Islamic law) -- India -- History
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) -- India -- History
Colonization.
Domestic relations (Hindu law)
Domestic relations (Islamic law)
Inheritance and succession (Hindu law)
Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)
Law - Non-U.S.
Law, Politics & Government.
Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica.
SUBJECT India -- Colonization
Subject India.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199081721
0199081727