Women and law in India : an omnibus comprising / Flavia Agnes, Sudhir Chandra, Monmayee Basu ; with an introduction by Flavia Agnes.

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Women's rights -- India.

Women -- legal status laws etc. -- India.

Hindu law.

1. Introduction --Part 1. Pre-colonial and colonial legal structures --2. Plurality of Hindu law and women's rights under it --3. Evolution of Islamic law and women's spaces within it --4. Colonial rule and subversion of rights --5. Politicization of women's rights --Part 2. Post-independence developments: --6. Hindu law reforms - stilted efforts at gender justice --7. Erosion of secular principles --8. Communal undertones within recent judicial decisions --Part 3. Developments in the personal laws of non-Muslim minorities --9. Legal significance of the Parsi community --10. Political reformulation of Christian personal law --Part 4. Current debates: --11. Model drafts and legal doctrines --12. Strategies of reform --13. Conclusions Enslaved daughters: colonialism, law and women's rights

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: from sacrament to contract: --1. Condition of Hindu women during the second half of the nineteenth century --2. The changing concept of Hindu marriage --3. Age of marriage --4. Shackles for the widow --5. Dowry --6. Severing the sacred tie --7. Right to property.

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