The Indians' Impossible Civil Code

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ID4180331
AuthorsOlivier Herrenschmidt (Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume50
Issue2
Pages309-347
Publication date2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003975609990154
OpenAlexW2076266901
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited7

The Uniform Civil Code which, as written in the 1950 Constitution of the Indian Union, should be enacted, still does not (and will probably never) exist. This paper examines the tactics used by the opponents in the Constituent and Legislative Assembly (1946-1951) who succeeded to wreck a proposed "modernisation" of theHindu Personnal Law, which could have been a first step towards that Uniform Code. In a very clever way, they never claimed to defend thedharmatreatises which had codified and legitimated aBrahmanical Social Orderfor centuries, but only wanted to maintain the multiplicity and diversity of customs and usages of the Hindu people

Archaeology · Civil code · Code (set theory) · Constitution · Constitution of India · Dharma · Hinduism · Legislature · Modernization theory · Order (exchange) · Political science · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies

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