Title: Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws
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.
Subjects: Domestic relations (Hindu law), History, Inheritance and succession (Hindu law), Domestic relations (Islamic law), Inheritance and succession (Islamic law), Colonization, Postcolonialism, Law, india