Principles of Hindu Law (Personal Law of Hindus, Budhists, Jains & Sikhs)

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Description
Despite the Constiution's call for a uniform civil code of the system of community-specific personal laws remains the order of the day in India. The codified personal law applicable unde rthis conventional regime to four different religious communities, together having over 80% share in the country's population, is inaccurately called 'Hindu law'.
The book offers a critical study of this major component of India's family law from certain new angles. Statutory provisions and their judicial interpretations have been viewed and presented in it in a historical, constituional and human rights perspective. Since this law, like all other personal laws, has to be applied along with and subject to a number of general statutes, teir provisions have also been brought into discusion in all chapters.
The book is an advancement over the author's earlier work Studies in Hindu Law last published in 1998 and registers all legislative developments and judicial verdicts of the new millennium.
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Contents
Prologue
History, Nature and Scope of Hindu Law
Part I : Matrimkonial Law
Chapter 1 : Governing Statutes - I
Chapter 2 : Marriage and Cohabitation
Chapter 3 : Divorce and Post-Divorce Subsistence
Chapter 4 : Settlementof Matrimonial Disputs
Part II : Family Rights & Relations
Chapter 5 : Governing Statutes - II
Chapter 6 : Natural Family Relations
Chapter 7 : Family Relations by Adoption
Part III : Property & Succession
Chapter 8 : Governing Statutes - III
Chapter 9 : Succession Rights & Liabilities
Chapter 10 : Joint Families & Impartible Estates
Appendix I : Texts of Jammu-Kashmir Hindu Law Act
Appendix II : Texts of Miscellaneous Laws (Central & Local)
Appendix III : Texts of Repealsed Hindu Law Acts (Central)
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