Enslaved Daughters: 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: Acknowledgements; 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 I, II, III, IV Bibliography Index Law and Gender Inequality: 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- Stolted 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 Bibliography Tables Index.