Contents
Part I - UCC: Historical Background and Concept
Chapter 01 : Multiculturalism and Spirit of Accommodation: A Relook at the UCC Debates
Chapter 02 : Uniform Civil Code: Its Vision through Indian constitution
Chapter 03 : Analysis on Constituent Assembly Debate on Uniform Civil Code
Chapter 04 : Constituent Assembly Debates on Uniform Civil Code
Part II - UCC: Need and Relevance
Chapter 05 : Uniform Civil Code vis-a-vis Personal Laws
Chapter 06 : Feasibility of Uniform Civil code for societal need and human rights of women
Chapter 07 : From Hindu code bill to uniform civil code: An Unfinished Journey
Chapter 08 : Examining matrimonial personal laws in India from a lens of feminist Jurisprudence:
The need for an uniform civil code
Chapter 09 : Right to maintenance for women from the lens of uniform civil code: Issues and Perspectives
Part III - UCC: issues and Challenges
Chapter 10 : A critical appraisal of uniform civil code with special emphasis on contemporary issues
Chapter 11 : Muslims, Gender Justice and the politics of uniform civil code
Chapter 12 : India needs a voluntary civil code and not a uniform civil code
Chapter 13 : Uniform civil code: The regional challenge with special reference to the North-Eastern India
Chapter 14 : Equality and freedom with a difference
Notes on Contributors
Index

Uniform Civil Code is a compilation of essays by experts on one of the most debatable topics of independent India. In the Indian legal system religious personal laws exist along with territorial secular laws - an understanding borrowed from British India. This understanding is often criticised because religious personal laws are considered to be gender unjust and a hurdle in realising the goal of national integration. Being a secular nation, India has, time and again, strived to settle these issues without much success. A Uniform Civil Code is often suggested as a remedy but the question lingers: will its introduction resolve all the problems pertaining to gender equality and national integration? Or will it have an adverse impact on the religious rights of the citizens? Uniform Civil Code is an attempt to answer all such questions by exploring various facets of the topic. Readers will get an insight into the journey and evolution of the concept of Uniform Civil Code as also the views of the protagonists and antagonists. From the Constituent Assembly debates, corridors of the courts of law, and political agendas being set on roads and TV studios, this book will give readers an overall insight into the topic and allow them to decide what seems right in their perspective.---provided by publisher