While the topic of arranged marriages among South Asians has generated some interest among researchers (Ballard, 1977-8; Brah, 1977-8), is often taken up by the media, and remains of tremendous importance to the South Asian communities in Britain themselves, nothing has, to my knowledge, so far been written about the effects of the British legal system and its requirements on South Asian customs and practices with particular reference to the solemnisation of Hindu marriages
The concept of ‘Asian laws in Britain’ was proposed in the 1990s by a leading scholar of South Asian...
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2010On the face of it, civil ma...
The Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, besides providing for the first time in India statutory divorce as a...
The phrase ‘for a long time’, rather than the much tighter earlier definition under Anglo-Hindu law,...
The phrase ‘for a long time’, rather than the much tighter earlier definition under Anglo-Hindu law,...
Covering the colonial period and modern India, this examination of the complex relationship between ...
In the late 1990's, various British news agencies reported cases of British-born South Asian Muslim ...
Whilst not an exhaustive examination, this paper will explore some of the key areas of the diversity...
Presented to a conference at the University of Roehampton, this paper explores the underlying logic ...
Matrimonial disputes have always been a necessary component of Indian society and law. Whereas these...
Historically, religion, unity and justice in the Age of Empires were the basis of civilizations, and...
Marriage in India is an event filled with customs and traditions which have been carried out through...
The acceptable norm of marriage in the Hindu society is marriage within the same caste. For years In...
India’s personal law system, where family law matters are rooted in religious law, has been the subj...
This chapter focuses on two cases in which I was involved as an expert on South Asian family laws. T...
The concept of ‘Asian laws in Britain’ was proposed in the 1990s by a leading scholar of South Asian...
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2010On the face of it, civil ma...
The Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, besides providing for the first time in India statutory divorce as a...
The phrase ‘for a long time’, rather than the much tighter earlier definition under Anglo-Hindu law,...
The phrase ‘for a long time’, rather than the much tighter earlier definition under Anglo-Hindu law,...
Covering the colonial period and modern India, this examination of the complex relationship between ...
In the late 1990's, various British news agencies reported cases of British-born South Asian Muslim ...
Whilst not an exhaustive examination, this paper will explore some of the key areas of the diversity...
Presented to a conference at the University of Roehampton, this paper explores the underlying logic ...
Matrimonial disputes have always been a necessary component of Indian society and law. Whereas these...
Historically, religion, unity and justice in the Age of Empires were the basis of civilizations, and...
Marriage in India is an event filled with customs and traditions which have been carried out through...
The acceptable norm of marriage in the Hindu society is marriage within the same caste. For years In...
India’s personal law system, where family law matters are rooted in religious law, has been the subj...
This chapter focuses on two cases in which I was involved as an expert on South Asian family laws. T...
The concept of ‘Asian laws in Britain’ was proposed in the 1990s by a leading scholar of South Asian...
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2010On the face of it, civil ma...
The Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, besides providing for the first time in India statutory divorce as a...