This book examines the development of Hindu laws from ancient period to its emergence as a postmodern phenomenon.
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Werner Menski is at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
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Despite being an ancient legal system, Hindu law has defied many modernist death wishes, copious predictions of its gradual demise or almost complete displacement (Galanter 1972; repeated in Galanter and Krishnan 2001), and even dramatic proclamations of its death (Derrett 1978a). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marriage solemnization, modem state law, rti texts, formal state law, personal law system, shastric texts, child marriage law, various personal laws, joint family context, legal textbook writers, further legal intervention, customary diversity, legal modernity, modernist commentators, customary divorces, legal postulates, shastric literature, modernist observers, breakdown principle, modernist scholarship, legal centralism, uniform civil code, early consummation, model jurisprudence, microcosmic order Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, Hindu Marriage Act, South Asian, Shah Bano, Law Commission, Professor Derrett, British India, Privy Council, Union of India, Warren Hastings, Krishna Iyer, Indian Muslims, East India Company, High Courts, Indira Gandhi, Sumitra Devi, Property Act, Bhaurao Shankar, Rama Mehta, Rau Committee, Special Marriage Act, Child Marriage Restraint Act, Indian Christian, Paras Diwan, Vijay Sharma New!
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Despite being an ancient legal system, Hindu law has defied many modernist death wishes, copious predictions of its gradual demise or almost complete displacement (Galanter 1972; repeated in Galanter and Krishnan 2001), and even dramatic proclamations of its death (Derrett 1978a). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
marriage solemnization, modem state law, rti texts, formal state law, personal law system, shastric texts, child marriage law, various personal laws, joint family context, legal textbook writers, further legal intervention, customary diversity, legal modernity, modernist commentators, customary divorces, legal postulates, shastric literature, modernist observers, breakdown principle, modernist scholarship, legal centralism, uniform civil code, early consummation, model jurisprudence, microcosmic order Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, Hindu Marriage Act, South Asian, Shah Bano, Law Commission, Professor Derrett, British India, Privy Council, Union of India, Warren Hastings, Krishna Iyer, Indian Muslims, East India Company, High Courts, Indira Gandhi, Sumitra Devi, Property Act, Bhaurao Shankar, Rama Mehta, Rau Committee, Special Marriage Act, Child Marriage Restraint Act, Indian Christian, Paras Diwan, Vijay Sharma New!
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- Women, Law and Social Change by Shamsuddin Shams on 4 pages
- Women and the Hindu Right on 4 pages
- South Asians and the Dowry Problem (Group on Ethnic Minority Studies (Gems),6,) by Werner Menski in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Multiverse of Democracy: Essays in Honour of Rajni Kothari by D L Sheth in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women in Contemporary India and South Asia by Alfred De Souza in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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