Adjudication in religious family laws : cultural accommodation, legal pluralism, and gender equality in India
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2011
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The shared adjudication model : theoretical framework and arguments
- 3. State law and the adjudication process : marriage, divorce, and the conjugal family in Hindu and Muslim personal laws
- 4. Making and unmaking the conjugal family : the administration of Hindu law in society
- 5. Juristic diversity, contestations over "Islamic law," and women's rights : regulation of matrimonial matters in Muslim personal law
- 6. Conclusion