Women and the Law in India Omnibus
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 15 January 2004
- ISBN 9780195667677
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1026 pages
- Size 222x145x40 mm
- Weight 990 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The omnibus forms a comprehensive and significant study of the issues of gender equality before law and various issues relation to women's rights, social justice, and empowerment.
MoreLong description:
The common thread that unites the three books is mapping the issue of equality before law and various issues relating to women's rights, social justice, and empowerment. The new Introduction by Flavia Agnes discusses the process of legal change. The omnibus forms a comprehensive and significant study for understanding why progressive laws, once passed, continue to be implemented in such limited manner. It highlights that legistlation even in the past fifty years have
not brought equality even though lip service is paid to it by policy-makers.
Sudhir Chandra studies the case of Rukhmabai wherein he reveals the inner working of the legal system during the colonial period and studies the conflicting and overlapping ideologies which underpinned it. This proves an essential reading in legal social and women's history of the period. Monmayee Basu takes the subject further. Her book is an in-depth study of the development and changes in the Hindu marriage laws are analysed to explain women's position in
society. Flavia Agnes takes up the newer/contemporary struggles for reforms related to women. Her work interweaves numerous perspectives into a meaningful whole. The analysis is backed by facts and cases. She takes up the important issue of Uniform Civil Code and has exposed the communal undertones of some of the recent judicial
pronouncements.
Table of Contents:
Enslaved Daughters: Prologue
Rukhmabai and Her Case
A Disputed Charter
The Law on Trial
A Challenge to Civilized Society
The Brutal Embrace: Let it Stand
Epilogue
Appendices- A to E
Index
Hindu Women and Marriage Law: Acknowledgements; Preface
Condition of Hindu Women during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
The Changing Concept of Hindu Marriage
The Age of Marriage
Shackles for the Widow
Dowry
Severing the Sacred Tie
The Right to Property
Epilogue
Glossary
Appendices I, II, III, IV
Bibliography
Index
Law and Gender Inequality: Abbreviations; Table of Cases
Introduction - A Need for Rescrutiny Part One: PRE-COLONIAL LEGAL STRUCTURES
Plurality of Hindu Law and Women's Rights Under it
Evolution of Islamic Law and Women's Spaces within it
Colonial Rule and Subversion of Rights
Politicization of Women's Rights
Part Two: POST-INDEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENTS
Hindu Law Reforms- Stolted Efforts at Gender Justice
Erosion of Secular Principles
Communal Undertones Within Recent Judicial Decisions
PArt Three: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PERSONAL LAWS OF NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES
Legal Significance of the Parsi Community
Political Reformulation of Christian Personal Law
Part Four: CURRENT DEBATES
Model Drafts and Legal Doctrines
Strategies of Reform
Conclusion
Appendix I
Bibliography
Tables
Index
