TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Rina Verma
TI  - Postcolonial politics and personal laws: colonial legal legacies and the Indian state 
T2  - Oxford law in India series
SN  - 9780199081721 (ebook) :
AV  - KNS540 .W55 2006
U1  - 346.54012 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Delhi, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Domestic relations (Hindu law)
KW  - History
KW  - Inheritance and succession (Hindu law)
KW  - Domestic relations (Islamic law)
KW  - India
KW  - Inheritance and succession (Islamic law)
KW  - Colonization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195680140.001.0001
ER  -