01769nam a2200349 a 4500 EDZ0000096349 StDuBDS 20150804193925.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120822s2006 ii fo| 001 0 eng d 9780199081721 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS KNS540 .W55 2006 346.54012 23 Williams, Rina Verma. Postcolonial politics and personal laws [electronic resource] : colonial legal legacies and the Indian state / Rina Verma Williams. New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. 1 online resource (vi, 214 p.). Oxford law in India series Placing 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. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Domestic relations (Hindu law) History. Inheritance and succession (Hindu law) History. Domestic relations (Islamic law) India History. Inheritance and succession (Islamic law) India History. India Colonization. Print version 9780195680140 Oxford law in India series. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195680140.001.0001 36934 36934