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Examine the impact of recent social legislation on Hindu marriage and family with special reference to the status of women.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The claim to be examined is that the Hindu Code legislation raised the status of women. It did — but unevenly, and the measuring rod matters. Leela Dube (Women and Kinship, 1997) showed that a woman's position is set by the kinship structure that governs residence, descent and entitlement; law can alter the formal rules…

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  • Hindu Marriage Act 1955: the conjugal bond redefined
  • Hindu Succession Act 1956 and the property question
  • Guardianship, adoption and maintenance
  • The later protective layer, and its limits
  • Conclusion

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