Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India
Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India

Author: Reena Patel

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2013-01-28

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1409493407

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Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share in family land. The work combines a critical evaluation of law with economic analyses into allocation of resources within the family as a means of addressing gender relations and explaining resulting gender inequalities.

The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India
The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India

Author: Eleanor Newbigin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1107434750

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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.

Mulla Hindu Law
Mulla Hindu Law

Author: Satyajeet A. Desai

Publisher:

Published: 2011-11-09

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 9788180385995

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This classic work is back in a single volume and packs in the entire contents of the earlier two-volume editions. The present edition traces the developments in the field of Hindu Law since 2011 that have led to significant legislative changes. In addition, it includes critical analyses of various key judicial pronouncements.

Hinduism and Law
Hinduism and Law

Author: Timothy Lubin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1139493582

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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.

Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmaśāstra
Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmaśāstra

Author: Ludo Rocher

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13: 1783083158

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The main sources for an understanding of classical Hindu law are the Sanskrit treatises on religious and legal duties, known as the Dharmaśāstras. In this collection of his major studies in the field, Ludo Rocher presents essays on a wide range of topics, from general themes such as the nature of Hindu law to technical matters including word studies and text criticism. Rocher’s deep engagement with the language and worldview of the authors in the Dharmaśāstra tradition yields distinctive and corrective contributions to the field. This collection serves as an invaluable introduction to a leading authority in the field of Indology.

She Comes to Take Her Rights
She Comes to Take Her Rights

Author: Srimati Basu

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1999-02-25

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780791440964

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Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It urges a close reading of decisions by women that appear to be contrary to material interests and that reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Hailed as a radical moment for gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act was passed in India in 1956 theoretically giving Hindu women the right to equal inheritance of their parents’ self-acquired property. However, in the years since the act’s existence, its provisions have scarcely been utilized. Using interview data drawn from middle-class and poor neighborhoods in Delhi, this book explores the complexity of women’s decisions with regard to family property in this context. The book shows that it is not passivity, ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth, or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides women’s decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. An examination of recent legal cases also reveals that the formal legal realm can be hospitable to women’s rights-based claims, but judgments are still coded in terms of customary provisions despite legal criteria to the contrary.