This intensively researched book argues that Hindu Law is an essentially flexible and constantly evolving system, that scholars have wrongly proclaimed it dead and merely a relic of an ancient past. The author contends that Hindu Law is very much alive and playing a role even in the current post-modern environment as is apparent in the way the courts themselves interpret various aspects of law, including the rules of inheritance, marriage, maintenance, and divorce. He also suggests that it would be wrong to see this law as uniformly oppressive. Wide in scope, the book examines the development…mehr
This intensively researched book argues that Hindu Law is an essentially flexible and constantly evolving system, that scholars have wrongly proclaimed it dead and merely a relic of an ancient past. The author contends that Hindu Law is very much alive and playing a role even in the current post-modern environment as is apparent in the way the courts themselves interpret various aspects of law, including the rules of inheritance, marriage, maintenance, and divorce. He also suggests that it would be wrong to see this law as uniformly oppressive. Wide in scope, the book examines the development of Hindu law from the ancient period, through it drastic remolding in the colonial era, to its emergence as a postmodern entity.
Werner F Menski Professor, School of Law, School of African and Asian Studies, University of London.
Inhaltsangabe
* Abbreviations * Preface * Part I: Historical and conceptual background * 1: Introduction * 2: Rising from the Ashes: Postmodern Hindu Law * 3: Antecedents and Concepts of Traditional Hindu Law * 4: The Post-classical Evolution of Hindu Law and its Colonial Distortions * 5: Origins of Modernity in Hindu Law: Emerging Discourses on Reforms and Codification * 6: Contesting Modernity: Postcolonial Evolution Of Hindu Law * 7: Transcending Modernity: The Postmodern Reconstruction Of Hindu Law * Part II: Substantive Hindu Law Beyond Tradition And Modernity * 8: Hindu Marriage Law * 9: Child Marriage * 10: Polygamy * 11: Divorce * 12: Maintenance * Part III: Concluding Analysis * 13: Postmodernity and Beyond * Table of Cases * List of Statutes * Bibliography * Index
* Abbreviations * Preface * Part I: Historical and conceptual background * 1: Introduction * 2: Rising from the Ashes: Postmodern Hindu Law * 3: Antecedents and Concepts of Traditional Hindu Law * 4: The Post-classical Evolution of Hindu Law and its Colonial Distortions * 5: Origins of Modernity in Hindu Law: Emerging Discourses on Reforms and Codification * 6: Contesting Modernity: Postcolonial Evolution Of Hindu Law * 7: Transcending Modernity: The Postmodern Reconstruction Of Hindu Law * Part II: Substantive Hindu Law Beyond Tradition And Modernity * 8: Hindu Marriage Law * 9: Child Marriage * 10: Polygamy * 11: Divorce * 12: Maintenance * Part III: Concluding Analysis * 13: Postmodernity and Beyond * Table of Cases * List of Statutes * Bibliography * Index
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