This text presents an overview of the major issues and topics in current developments in Indian family law. Indian law has produced a number of very important innovations in the past two decades, which are also highly instructive for law reform debates in western and other jurisdictions. Topics discussed are: marriage, divorce, polygamy, maintenance, property and the Uniform Civil Code.

Werner F. Menski

Introduction Indian law in the 1980s and 1990s; Chapter 1 Marriage; Chapter 2 Divorce; Chapter 3 Polygamy; Chapter 4 Maintenance; Chapter 5 Joint family and property law; Chapter 6 The Uniform Civil Code debate; Chapter 7 Concluding analysis;