Conflict in the Shared Household

Domestic Violence and the Law in India
Herausgeber: Jaising, Indira; Anurag, Pinki Mathur

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Produktbeschreibung

The objective of this publication is to take stock of the progress made towards achieving the statutory objectives ot the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, in the first decade of its implementation. In this regard, the work attempts to cover themes relating to state accountability in terms of providing a supportive framework to facilitate women's access to justice, experiences in court, and jurisprudence evolved by appellate courts. It also seeksto trace and document the history behind the enactment of the PWDVA 2005.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1610g
• ISBN-13: 9780199489954
• ISBN-10: 0199489955
• Artikelnr.: 56737654

Autorenporträt

Indira Jaising is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of India. Pinki Mathur Anurag is a director (technical) at Lawyers Collective, Mumbai.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* List of Tables
* Section I: Causes and Consequences
* 1 Unscrambling the Images: Conflict in the Shared Household
* Indira Jaising
* 2 Some Thoughts on Domestic Violence: Using Violence to Regulate a
Patriarchal Family
* Uma Chakravarty
* 3 Mapping Legislative Changes
* Asmita Basu
* Section II: Critical Issues
* 4 'But where Will I Live?': Domestic Violence and the Right to Reside
* Pinki Mathur Anurag
* 5 Of 'Keeps' and 'Concubines': Rights of Cohabitees under Domestic
Violence Act
* Brototi Datta
* 6 Marital Rape as Domestic Violence: A Case for Criminalizing Marital
Rape
* Ajita Sharma
* 7 Towards Uniformity of Rights: Muslim Personal Law, the Domestic
Violence Act, and the Harmonization of Family Law in India
* Saptarshi Mandal
* Section III: Expectations from the Law and Its Enforcement
* 8 Analysing Orders Granted Under the PWDVA 2005
* Aparna Chandra
* 9 Long Road to Justice: Implementation of the Protection of Women
from Domestic Violence Act (2005) in Haryana
* Monica Sakhrani, Trupti Jhaveri Panchal, Radhika Chakraborty, and
Manisha Kande
* 10 Nature of Services Available to Women Survivors: One Stop Crisis
CentresReview and Recommendations
* Padma Bhate-Deosthali and Sangeeta Rege
* 11 Changing Contours of Fiscal Policy and Budgets to Address Violence
against Women: An Analysis of Two States
* Kanika Kaul
* Index
* About the Editors and Contributors