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to compile a digest of the Hindu scriptural law in four main civil matters—marriage, divorce, inheritance and succession. The Hindu
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Families: Ascetic Genealogies, Property Feuds and Anglo-Hindu Law in Late Colonial India. Modern Asian Studies, Volume 43, Number 5, pp. 1039-1083.
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lead to widespread changes, controversies and civil suits in Hindu society across all strata and in monastic orders. Between 1860 and 1940, the issue of succession in the
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Kishwar, Madhu (13 August 1994). Codified Hindu Law: Myth and
Reality. Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 29, Number 33, pp.2145-2161.
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courts, which also led to the removal of women and children from certain ascetic orders with varying degrees of success.
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