Adjudication in Religious Family Laws: Cultural Accommodation, Legal Pluralism, and Gender Equality in India

by Gopika Solanki

Book Overview

This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. In this model the civic and religious sources of legal authority construct, transmit and communicate heterogeneous notions of the conjugal family, gender relations and religious membership within the interstices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107610591
• ISBN13: 9781107610590
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"