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Traditional futures : law and custom in India's Lakshadweep Islands / V. Vijayakumar.
Van Pelt Library KNT9546.7 .V55 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vijaya Kumar, V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Customary law--India--Lakshadweep.
- Customary law.
- Inheritance and succession--India--Lakshadweep.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Matrilineal kinship--India--Lakshadweep.
- Matrilineal kinship.
- India--Lakshadweep.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- This book is an informed analysis of the customary laws of the Lakshadweep Islands, which offer a rare example of a Muslim community whose rules of inheritance are based on matrilineal Hindu customary law.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-318) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0195672275
- 9780195672275
- OCLC:
- 58998752
- Online:
- Publisher description
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