Hindu Law Beyond Tradition and Modernity

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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. Title_Pages title.pdf Dedication Abbreviations Abreviations.pdf Preface preface.pdf Introduction chp1.pdf Rising_from_the_AshesPostmodern_Hindu_Law chp2.pdf Antecedents_and_Concepts_of_Traditional_Hindu_Law chp3.pdf The_Postclassical_Evolution_of_Hindu_Law_and_its_Colonial_Distortions chp4.pdf Origins_of_Modernity_in_Hindu_Law_Emerging_Discourses_on_Reforms_and_Codification chp5.pdf Contesting_ModernityPostcolonial_Evolution_of_Hindu_Law chp6.pdf Transcending_Modernity_the_Postmodern_Reconstruction_of_Hindu_Law chp7.pdf Hindu_Marriage_Law chp8.pdf Child_Marriage chp9.pdf Polygamy chp10.pdf Divorce chp11.pdf Maintenance_Law chp12.pdf Postmodernity_and_Beyond chp13.pdf Table_of_Cases Table of Cases.pdf List_of_Statutes List of Statutes.pdf Bibliography bibliography.pdf Index Index.pdf