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Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Two Treatises on the Hindu Law of Inheritance
Author: Hinduism and Law
Author: Timothy LubinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139493582
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Covering the earliest Sanskrit rulebooks through to the codification of 'Hindu law' in modern times, this interdisciplinary volume examines the interactions between Hinduism and the law. The authors present the major transformations to India's legal system in both the colonial and post colonial periods and their relation to recent changes in Hinduism. Thematic studies show how law and Hinduism relate and interact in areas such as ritual, logic, politics, and literature, offering a broad coverage of South Asia's contributions to religion and law at the intersection of society, politics and culture. In doing so, the authors build on previous treatments of Hindu law as a purely text-based tradition, and in the process, provide a fascinating account of an often neglected social and political history.
The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India
Author: Eleanor NewbiginPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107434750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India considers how questions regarding family structure, property rights and gender relations contributed to the development of representative politics, and how, in solving these questions, India's secular and state power structures were consequently drawn into a complex and unique relationship with Hindu law. In this comprehensive and illuminating resource for scholars and students, Newbigin demonstrates the significance of gender and economy to the history of twentieth-century democratic government, as it emerged in India and beyond.
Owning Land, Being Women
Author: Amrita MondalPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110690535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Owning Land, Being Women enquires into the processes that establish inheritance as a unique form of property relation in law and society. It focuses on India, examining the legislative processes that led to the 2005 amendment of the Hindu Succession Act 1956, along with several interconnected welfare policies. Scholars have understood these Acts as a response to growing concerns about women’s property rights in developing countries. In re-reading these Acts and exploring the wider nexus of Indian society in which the legislation was drafted, this study considers how questions of family structure and property rights contribute to the creation of legal subjects and demonstrates the significance of the politico-economic context of rights formulation. On the basis of an ethnography of a village in West Bengal, this book brings the moral axis of inheritance into sharp focus, elucidating the interwoven dynamics of bequest, distribution of family wealth and reciprocity of care work that are integral to the logic of inheritance. It explains why inheritance rights based on the notion of individual property rights are inadequate to account for practices of inheritance. Mondal shows that inheritance includes normative structures of affective attachment and expectations, i.e., evaluatively-charged imaginaries of the future that coordinate present practices. These insights pose questions of the dominant resource-based conceptualisation of inherited property in the debate on women’s empowerment. In doing so, this work opens up a line of investigation that brings feminist rights discourse into conversation with ethics, enriching the liberal theory of gender justice.
The Hindu Law
Author: Herbert CowellPublisher:
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Appropriation and Invention of Tradition
Author: Nandini Bhattacharyya PandaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199087903
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This book, strongly grounded in primary sources, makes an important contribution to the intellectual history of early modern Bengal. It brings to light the complex interpenetration of diverse interests, opinions, and ideologies articulated by various social groups implicated in the process of colonization on the lines of Ranajit Guha's work on property relations in Bengal and Radhika Singha's work on law. There is no comparable work specifically on the subject of Hindu property rights and how these came to be perceived or interpreted in early modern Bengal. The author explores the so-called compendia prepared under British auspices and argues that there was hardly any link between the Smritis and the laws. The latter were determined almost entirely by changing British policy with regard to land revenue and that many of the positive features of Hindu custom like women's rights to property were undermined in the process.
The Tribes and Castes of Bengal
Author: Sir Herbert Hope RisleyPublisher:
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Category : Anthropometry
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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The Principles of the Hindu Law of Inheritance ...
Author: Rajkumar SarvadhikariPublisher:
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Category : Hindu law
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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"Bargaining" and Legal Change
Author: Bina AgarwalPublisher:
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Category : Inheritance and succession
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Focuses on the Hindu Succession Act of 1956.
Yajnavalkya Smriti
Author: YājñavalkyaPublisher:
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Category : Hindu law
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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