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• Title:Hindu law : beyond tradition and modernity / Werner F. Menski.
  
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• Author/Creator:Menski, Werner.
  
• Published/Created:New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KNS469.5 .M46 2003 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Hindus--Legal status, laws, etc.--India.
  Civil law--India.
  Hindu law--History.
  
• Description:xxii, 648 p. ; 27 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [610]-639) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195665031
  0195665031
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Historical and Conceptual Background
  1. Introduction
  2. Rising from the Ashes: Postmodern Hindu Law
  3. Antecedents and Concepts of Traditional Hindu Law
  4. Post-classical Evolution of Hindu Law and its Colonial Distortions
  5. Origins of Modernity in Hindu Law: Emerging Discourses on Reforms and Codification
  6. Contesting Modernity: Post-colonial Evolution of Hindu Law
  7. Transcending Modernity: The Postmodern Reconstruction of Hindu Law
  Pt. II. Substantive Hindu Law Beyond Tradition and Modernity
  8. Hindu Marriage Law
  9. Child Marriage
  10. Polygamy
  11. Divorce
  12. Maintenance Law
  Pt. III. Concluding Analysis
  13. Postmodernity and Beyond.