Williams, Rina Verma <br/><br/>
Postcolonial politics and personal law :  colonial legal legacies and the Indian state 
by Rina Verma Williams. 
 - New Delhi :  Oxford,  2006. 
 - 214 p. 
<br/><br/> Table of contents:<br/>Chapter 1. Introduction <br/>Chapter 2. Law, nation, state : colonial and postcolonial contexts <br/>Chapter 3. Personal laws and noninterference : the late colonial era, 1920-47 <br/>Chapter 4. Reform and codification of Hindu personal law : The Hindu code bills, 1948-57 <br/>Chapter 5. Noninterference and muslim personal law : Shah Bano and the Muslim Women Bill, 1984-86 <br/>Chapter 6. The end of noninterference? The BJP's rise to power, 1984-2004. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195680140 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Family law.<br/>Domestic Relations (Hindu law)--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.54012  / WIL/POS