Saumya Uma
Biographic Data
| ID | 801689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saumya Uma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saumya |
| FAMILY NAME | Uma |
| SIGNATURE | UMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ambedkar University Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5867-9111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Journey of the Domestic Violence Law and Its Impact on Women’s Lives
Supurna Banerjee, Nandini Ghosh, Madhurima Mukhopadhyay and Ruchira Goswami, The Violent Domestic: Law, Its Practice, and Strategies of Survival. Zubaan, New Delhi, 2022. 208 pp., ₹695 (Paperback), ISBN 978939051461
Lesser Than Equal
In India, Hindu family law is often touted as a progressive and gender-just law that ought to be emulated and extended to minority religious communities through a common civil code. Against this backdrop, the present article examines the question of whether Hindu family law in India adequately protects women’s rights and, if law reform is required, what should be the factors guiding it. The article further analyses the status of women within Hind…
Fidelity, Male Privilege and the Sanctity of Marriage
This article examines the birth, life and death of the criminal law provision on adultery in India through historical, socio-legal, feminist and human rights perspectives. The provision on adultery was struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India in 2018. The article analyses the legal developments culminating in the landmark judgment, as well as its aftermath. It addresses, as a central question, the construction of intimate rel…
Between the Devil and the Deep Sea
In recognition of their distinct culture and identity, tribal communities in India enjoy constitutionally guaranteed autonomy and self-governance, which extend to customary laws for marriage, matrimonial rights and inheritance. In contexts where the tribal customary law has denied women inheritance rights, some women have approached the courts of law. The Hindu law on inheritance specifically excludes tribal communities from its application; yet,…
Clash of the Titans or Friendly Bedfellows? Freedom of Religion or Belief and Women’s Rights in India
This article uses a case study of India to examine the contested relationship between two sets of human rights—freedom of religion or belief on the one hand, and women’s rights to life, dignity, equality, non-discrimination, sexual autonomy, and bodily integrity on the other. Through a critical analysis of the practice of female genital mutilation within the Bohra Muslim community, which is currently the subject of a constitutional challenge in t…
Wedlock or Wed-Lockup? A Case for Abolishing Restitution of Conjugal Rights in India
Colonialism in India consisted of a “civilizing mission” when the British rulers sought to initiate reforms in India, by projecting themselves to be the forerunners of modernity. Ironically, restitution of conjugal rights (RCR) runs contrary to any claims of modernity. Through an RCR, an unwilling spouse could be directed by the coercive machinery of the law to cohabit with his/her spouse, in recognition of the right of married persons to conjuga…
South Asian feminist engagements with law
Human rights and its future
Advocating Socio-Economic Justice
The purpose of clinical legal education is not merely to equip the law student with lawyering skills to further the interests of his/her client; lawyers are also campaigners of socio-economic justice, policy makers, architects and influencers of law and policy, educators, counsellors and a voice for those whose human rights are trampled upon. The Indian campaign on the International Criminal Court (ICC-India campaign) is an anti-impunity campaign…
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Advocating Socio-Economic Justice
The purpose of clinical legal education is not merely to equip the law student with lawyering skills to further the interests of his/her client; lawyers are also campaigners of socio-economic justice, policy makers, architects and influencers of law and policy, educators, counsellors and a voice for those whose human rights are trampled upon. The Indian campaign on the International Criminal Court (ICC-India campaign) is an anti-impunity campaign…
Human rights and its future
South Asian feminist engagements with law
Wedlock or Wed-Lockup? A Case for Abolishing Restitution of Conjugal Rights in India
Colonialism in India consisted of a “civilizing mission” when the British rulers sought to initiate reforms in India, by projecting themselves to be the forerunners of modernity. Ironically, restitution of conjugal rights (RCR) runs contrary to any claims of modernity. Through an RCR, an unwilling spouse could be directed by the coercive machinery of the law to cohabit with his/her spouse, in recognition of the right of married persons to conjuga…
Clash of the Titans or Friendly Bedfellows? Freedom of Religion or Belief and Women’s Rights in India
This article uses a case study of India to examine the contested relationship between two sets of human rights—freedom of religion or belief on the one hand, and women’s rights to life, dignity, equality, non-discrimination, sexual autonomy, and bodily integrity on the other. Through a critical analysis of the practice of female genital mutilation within the Bohra Muslim community, which is currently the subject of a constitutional challenge in t…
Lesser Than Equal
In India, Hindu family law is often touted as a progressive and gender-just law that ought to be emulated and extended to minority religious communities through a common civil code. Against this backdrop, the present article examines the question of whether Hindu family law in India adequately protects women’s rights and, if law reform is required, what should be the factors guiding it. The article further analyses the status of women within Hind…
Fidelity, Male Privilege and the Sanctity of Marriage
This article examines the birth, life and death of the criminal law provision on adultery in India through historical, socio-legal, feminist and human rights perspectives. The provision on adultery was struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India in 2018. The article analyses the legal developments culminating in the landmark judgment, as well as its aftermath. It addresses, as a central question, the construction of intimate rel…
Between the Devil and the Deep Sea
In recognition of their distinct culture and identity, tribal communities in India enjoy constitutionally guaranteed autonomy and self-governance, which extend to customary laws for marriage, matrimonial rights and inheritance. In contexts where the tribal customary law has denied women inheritance rights, some women have approached the courts of law. The Hindu law on inheritance specifically excludes tribal communities from its application; yet,…
Journey of the Domestic Violence Law and Its Impact on Women’s Lives
Supurna Banerjee, Nandini Ghosh, Madhurima Mukhopadhyay and Ruchira Goswami, The Violent Domestic: Law, Its Practice, and Strategies of Survival. Zubaan, New Delhi, 2022. 208 pp., ₹695 (Paperback), ISBN 978939051461
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Autonomy (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (3 works)