Feminist Law Archives
By Partners For Law In Development
Chronicling the Engagement of the Women's Movement with Law
Saheli, Hindu Succession Amendment Bill: Women’s groups join to plug loopholes, Newsletter Jan-Apr 2005
‘State of Maharashtra’s Amendment to the Hindu Succession Act 1956’ (WARLAW, 2001)
Poonam Saxena, Constitutionality of Family Laws in India: An Insight into the Challenges and the Response of the Judiciary (Date Unknown)
Women Awake: Law also has Meaning for You, Central Social Welfare Board, New Delhi (1985)
Shahnaz Anklesaria, Woman and the Law, paper presented in the “Women’s NGO Consultation: The Women’s Decade in Review”, 3-4 April 1985, New Delhi
Shahnaz Anklesaria, Law & Women’s Status: Property Laws as Symbols of Sex Determination (Date Unknown)
Recent Changes in Laws Relating to Women, Lawyers Collective (circa 1980s)
Law Commission of India (59th Report): Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and Special Marriage Act, 1954 (March 1974)
Harvinder Kaur v. Harminder Singh, Delhi High Court, 15 Nov 1983
T. Sareetha v. T. Venkatasubbiah, Andhra Pradesh High Court, 1 July 1983
The Hindu Code Bill, Economic Weekly, 24 Dec 1949
The Draft Hindu Code Bill, by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar along with the then existing Hindu Code as amended by the Select Committee (1948)
Codified Hindu Law: Myth and Reality, Madhu Kishwar, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 29 (August 1994)
Hindu Succession Amendment Bill by Saheli 2005
Hindu Succession Act, 1956
Saroj Rani v. Sudarshan Kumar Chaddha, Supreme Court of India, 8 Aug 1984
C. Masilamani Mudaliar v. Idol of Sri Swaminathaswami Thirukoil, Supreme Court of India, 30 Jan 1996
State of Bombay v. Narasu Appa Malli, Bombay High Court, 24 July 1951
The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
Saheli, Legislative Reforms in the Hindu Succession Act, Newsletter Sep-Dec 2005
Santosh Kulshrestha, Indian Women’s Right to Property, 2nd National Conference on Women’s Studies, Kerala (1984)