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Women and law in India: an omnibus comprising: law and gender inequality, enslaved daughters, Hindu women and marriage law

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford India PaperbacksPublication details: Oxford University Press 2016 New DelhiDescription: xlv, 250 p. Law and gender inequality by Flavia Agnes; xi, 249 p. Enslaved daughters by Sudhir Chandra; xvii, 177 p. Hindu women and marriage law by Monmayee BasuISBN:
  • 9780199467211
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.54 A4W6
Summary: 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. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/women-and-law-in-india-9780199467211?q=9780199467211&lang=en&cc=in#
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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

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.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/women-and-law-in-india-9780199467211?q=9780199467211&lang=en&cc=in#

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