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Critically assess the role of social legislation in bringing about basic structural changes in marriage, family and property in India. What are the main obstacles in evolving a common Civil Code?

  • UPSC 1990
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The load-bearing phrase is "basic structural". Social legislation has certainly altered the legal structure of marriage, family and property. Whether it has altered the social structure — the distribution of authority and assets between men and women, and between communities — is a weaker claim. The unfinished business of that reform is what makes a…

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