• ISBN13: 9780198067900
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Law and Criminology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: January 1, 2011
• Pages: 296
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 300 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Legal History, Comparative, and Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice

The first of two-volumes on the subject, this book provides an in-depth analysis of family laws while exploring the overlaps and contradictions in them. It reviews the legal history of personal laws of the colonial and post colonial periods and their application in contemporary matrimonial law. The ground level litigation practices are interwoven with the framework of statutory provisions, which in turn provide an entry point into the rights discourses and social movements. The book discusses cases, Acts, and amendments, and unravels legal complexities. The concern of the book is to weave women's realities into legal theories and position women's claims within the Constitution to highlight the lacunae in laws and to analyze their effectiveness at the ground level.

Flavia Agnes is a practicing lawyer in the Mumbai High Court and co-founder of MAJLIS, a Mumbai-based legal and cultural resource center. She is well known as a pioneer of the women's movement in India and, more specifically, for her work on legal reforms.