Introduction by Flavia Agnes; Law and Gender Inequality; The Politics of Women's Rights in India; Abbreviations; Table of Cases; 1. Introduction'A Need for Rescrutiny; Part One: PRE-COLONIAL LEGAL STRUCTURES; 2. Plurality of Hindu Law and Women's Rights Under It; 3. Evolution of Islamic Law and Women's Spaces within It; 4. Colonial Rule and Subversion of Rights; 5. Politicization of Women's Rights; Part Two: POST-INDEPENDENCE DEVELOPMENTS; 6. Hindu Law Reforms'Stilted Efforts at Gender Justice; 7. Erosion of Secular Principles; 8.

Communal Undertones Within Recent Judicial Decisions; Part Three: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PERSONAL LAWS OF NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES; 9. Legal Significance of the Parsi Community; 10. Political Reformulation of Christian Personal Law; Part Four: CURRENT DEBATES; 11. Model Drafts and Legal Doctrines; 12. Strategies of Reform; 13. Conclusion; Appendix I; Appendix II; Appendix III; Bibliography; Tables; Index; Enslaved Daughters; Colonialism, Law and Women's Rights; Prologue; 1. Rukhmabai and Her Case; 2. A Disputed Charter; 3.

The Law on Trial; 4. A Challenge to Civilized Society; 5. The Brutal Embrace: Let it Stand; Epilogue; Appendices'A to E; Index; Hindu Women and Marriage Law; From Sacrament to Contract; Preface; 1. Condition of Hindu Women during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; 2. The Changing Concept of Hindu Marriage; 3. The Age of Marriage; 4. Shackles for the Widow; 5. Dowry; 6.

Severing the Sacred Tie; 7. The Right to Property; Epilogue; Glossary; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.