Traditional Futures Law and Custom in the Lakshadweep Islands

by Vijayakumar, V.

• ISBN13: 9780195672275
• ISBN10: 0195672275
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is an informed analysis of the customary laws of the Lakshadweep Islands, which offer a rare example of a Muslim community whose rules of inheritance are based on matrilineal Hindu customary law.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xii
List of Abbreviations	xv
Lakshadweep's Dual Property System	xvi
Map of the Lakshadweep Islands	xvii
1. The Lakshadweep Islands: An Introduction	1	(14)
2. Religion and Caste in the Islands	15	(28)
3. The Concept of Property, Land Tenures, and Land Reforms	43	(18)
4. The Legal System: Periods of Obscurity and Rajas	61	(17)
5. The Legal System: The British Period	78	(22)
6. The Legal System: The Post-Independence Period	100	(24)
7. Marumakkathayam as Customary Law: Institutions and Authorities	124	(16)
8. Marumakkathayam as Customary Law: Maintenance Arrangements and Partition	140	(25)
9. The Impact of Modernization on Custom	165	(52)
10. The Status of Women and Customary Laws	217	(27)
11. The Legal Profession, Legal Aid, and Custom	244	(20)
12. Epilogue	264	(7)
Appendix I Area and Population	271	(4)
Appendix II Statistics on Judicial Administration	275	(8)
Appendix III (a) Administration of Justice: Civil	283	(7)
Appendix III (b) Administration of Justice: Criminal	290	(6)
Appendix IV Regulation I of 1912	296	(5)
Appendix V Order of Revenue Divisional Officer	301	(2)
Appendix VI Orders of Monegars	303	(3)
Appendix VII The Model Lakshadweep Customary Laws Regulation	306	(5)
Bibliography	311	(8)
Glossary	319	(7)
Index of Cases	326	(3)
Subject Index	329