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LAW Johnny C. Burris Collection - 3rd Floor	KNS469.5 .M46 2003		AVAILABLE

Author	Menski, Werner.
Title	Hindu law : beyond tradition and modernity / Werner Menski.
OCLC	53807661
ISBN	0195665031
	9780195665031
Publisher	New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
	�2003
Description	xxii, 648 pages ; 27 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Hindus -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India.
	Civil law -- India.
	Hindu law -- History.
	Burris Collection.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [610]-639) and index.
Contents	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 and its colonial distortions -- Origins of modernity in Hindu law: emerging discourses on reforms and codification -- Contesting modernity: post-colonial evolution of Hindu law -- Part II: substantive Hindu law beyond tradition and modernity -- Hindu marriage law -- Child marriage -- Polygamy -- Divorce -- Maintenance law -- Part II: concluding analysis -- Postmodernity and beyond.

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