Saumya Saxena: Divorce and Democracy. A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India (reviewed by Julie Rocheton)


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Document type
Review (monograph)
Journal
Rechtsgeschichte
Pages
230-231
Author (Review)
Language(s) (review)
French
Language(s) (reviewed text)
English
Authors
Title
Divorce and Democracy
Subtitle
A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India
Year of publication
2022
Place of publication
Cambridge
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
XVI, 377
ISBN
978-1-10849-834-0
Subject classification
Legal History, Political History
Time classification
20th century, 21st century
Regional classification
Southern Asia and India
Subject heading
Personenrecht
Islamisches Recht
Hindutva
Verfassung
Demokratisierung
Original source URL
https://rg.lhlt.mpg.de/index.php/rg/article/view/2348
recensio-Date
Dec 16, 2025
recensio-ID
b1e5d5308c4e41c39251329d372d8ee7

Rocheton, Julie: review of: Saumya Saxena, Divorce and Democracy. A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, in: Rechtsgeschichte, 32 (2024), p. 230-231, downloaded from Website

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