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This book contends that contrary to those who proclaimed it dead, Hindu law remains a complex living system that has reached a condition of postmodernity and that, along with Hindu custom and cultural concepts, it continues to play an integral role in legal developments today.
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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
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Preface
Part I: Historical and conceptual background
Introduction
Rising from the Ashes: Postmodern Hindu Law
Antecedents and Concepts of Traditional Hindu Law
The Post-classical Evolution of Hindu Law and its Colonial Distortions
Origins of Modernity in Hindu Law: Emerging Discourses on Reforms and Codification
Contesting Modernity: Postcolonial Evolution Of Hindu Law
Transcending Modernity: The Postmodern Reconstruction Of Hindu Law
Part II: Substantive Hindu Law Beyond Tradition And Modernity
Hindu Marriage Law
Child Marriage
Polygamy
Divorce
Maintenance
Part III: Concluding Analysis
Postmodernity and Beyond
Table of Cases
List of Statutes
Bibliography
Index
