Author: India. Ministry of Law and JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Index to Central and State Enactments
Author: India. Ministry of Law and JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The West Bengal Code: West Bengal Acts, 1947 to 1956
Author: West Bengal (India)The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000
Author: Jasodhara BagchiPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761932420
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This important and comprehensive volume vividly depicts the current status of women and girls in West Bengal. The analysis has been conducted in the framework of the socio-economic and politico-cultural ambience that has characterized the state in recent decades. The contributors highlight both areas of strength and vulnerability and clearly demonstrate that the status of women cannot be conceived as monolithic or static--it has many facets and is in a state of constant flux. The analysis of macro data is supported by revealing micro studies based on field surveys and an examination of cultural trends.
State Governments Publications in India, 1947-1982
Author: Mohinder SinghPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The India Code
Author: IndiaIndian Recorder & Digest
Author: The National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Owning Land, Being Women
Author: Amrita MondalPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110690497
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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.
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