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020 _a9780199081721 (ebook) :
_cNo price
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_beng
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050 0 _aKNS540
_b.W55 2006
082 0 4 _a346.54012
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100 1 _aWilliams, Rina Verma.
245 1 0 _aPostcolonial politics and personal laws
_h[electronic resource] :
_bcolonial legal legacies and the Indian state /
_cRina Verma Williams.
260 _aNew Delhi ;
_aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2006.
300 _a1 online resource (vi, 214 p.).
490 1 _aOxford law in India series
520 8 _aPlacing 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 _aDomestic relations (Hindu law)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aInheritance and succession (Hindu law)
_xHistory.
650 0 _aDomestic relations (Islamic law)
_zIndia
_xHistory.
650 0 _aInheritance and succession (Islamic law)
_zIndia
_xHistory.
651 0 _aIndia
_xColonization.
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780195680140
830 0 _aOxford law in India series.
856 4 0 _3Oxford scholarship online
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195680140.001.0001
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c39496
_d39496