Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws
Subtitle: Colonial Legal Legacies and the Indian State
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: September 8, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780195680140
Description: Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that there is a complex continuity between the terms of the debate in the postcolonial Indian state and its colonial counterpart.