TY  - BOOK
AU  - Agnes, Flavia
AU  - Chandra, Sudhir
AU  - Basu, Monmayee
TI  - Women and law in India: an omnibus comprising: law and gender inequality, enslaved daughters, Hindu women and marriage law
SN  - 9780199467211
U1  - 346.54 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Women - Legal status - India
KW  - Women - laws
KW  - Women - Social condition
N1  - Table of Contents:

Law and Gender Inequality
1. Introduction- A Need for Rescrutiny
Part I: Pre-colonial legal structures
2. Plurality of Hindu Law and Womenâs Rights Under It
3. Evolution of Islamic Law and Womenâs Spaces within It
4. Colonial Rule and Subversion of Rights
5. Politicization of Womenâs Rights 
Part II: Post-independence developments 
6. Hindu Law ReformsâStilted Efforts at Gender Justice
7. Erosion of Secular Principles
8. Communal Undertones Within Recent Judicial Decisions 
Part III: Developments in the personal laws of non-muslim minorities 
9. Legal Significance of the Parsi Community
10. Political Reformulation of Christian Personal Law 
Part IV: Current debates 
11. Model Drafts and Legal Doctrines
12. Strategies of Reform

Enslaved Daughters
1. Rukhmabai and Her Case
2. A Disputed Charter
3. The Law on Trial
4. A Challenge to Civilized Society
5. The Brutal Embrace: Let it Stand

Hindu Women and Marriage Law
1. Condition of Hindu Women during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
2. The Changing Concept of Hindu Marriage
3. The Age of Marriage
4. Shackles for the Widow
5. Dowry
6. Severing the Sacred Tie
7. The Right to Property


N2  - This omnibus brings together three significant works on Gender equality which comprehensively analyse key issues including women's rights, social justice, and empowerment. Together, the Books span Legal change in India over two centuries when women's rights were negotiated, rewritten and coded. In doing so they provide a comprehensive and significant understanding of why progressive laws, once passed, continue to be implemented in such a limited manner. They highlight the fact that legislations in the past fifty years have not brought gender equality in any real sense.

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