Download or read book Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws written by Rina Verma Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that there is a complex continuity between the terms of the debate in the postcolonial Indian state and its colonial counterpart.