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Hindu law : beyond tradition and modernity / Werner Menski.
LIBRA KNS469.5 .M46 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Menski, Werner.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hindus--Legal status, laws, etc--India.
- Hindus.
- Hindus--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Hindu law.
- History.
- India.
- Civil law--India.
- Civil law.
- Hindu law--History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 648 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Part I: historical and conceptual background
- Introduction
- Rising from the ashes: postmodern Hindu law
- Antecedents and concepts of traditional Hindu law
- The Post-classical evolution of Hindu law and its colonial distortions
- Origins of modernity in Hindu law and its colonial distortions
- Origins of modernity in Hindu law: emerging discourses on reforms and codification
- Contesting modernity: post-colonial evolution of Hindu law
- Part II: substantive Hindu law beyond tradition and modernity
- Hindu marriage law
- Child marriage
- Polygamy
- Divorce
- Maintenance law
- Part II: concluding analysis
- Postmodernity and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [610]-639) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195665031
- OCLC:
- 53807661
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