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Postcolonial politics and personal laws : colonial legal legacies and the Indian state / Rina Verma Williams.
LIBRA KNS540 .W55 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Rina Verma.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Domestic relations (Hindu law)--India--History.
- Domestic relations (Hindu law).
- Inheritance and succession (Hindu law)--India--History.
- Inheritance and succession (Hindu law).
- Domestic relations (Islamic law)--India--History.
- Domestic relations (Islamic law).
- Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)--India--History.
- Inheritance and succession (Islamic law).
- Colonization.
- History.
- India--Colonization.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 214 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195680140
- 0195680146
- OCLC:
- 71211173
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