TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams, Rina Verma
TI  - Postcolonial politics and personal law: colonial legal legacies and the Indian state
SN  - 9780195680140
U1  - 346.54012 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford
KW  - Family law
KW  - Domestic Relations (Hindu law)--History
N1  - Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction 
Chapter 2. Law, nation, state : colonial and postcolonial contexts 
Chapter 3. Personal laws and noninterference : the late colonial era, 1920-47 
Chapter 4. Reform and codification of Hindu personal law : The Hindu code bills, 1948-57 
Chapter 5. Noninterference and muslim personal law : Shah Bano and the Muslim Women Bill, 1984-86 
Chapter 6. The end of noninterference? The BJP's rise to power, 1984-2004
ER  -