Contents
Part I : Principles of Hindu Law
Chapter I - Operation of Hindu Law
Chapter II - Sources of Hindu Law
Chapter III - General Principles of Inheritance
Chapter IV - Order of Inheritance of Males According to Mitakshara Law
Chapter V - Female Heirs
Chapter VI - Order of Succession to Males in the Bombay State
Chapter VII - Order of Inheritance to Males According to Dayabhaga or Bengal School
Chapter VIII - Points of Difference between Mitakshara and Dayabhaga Succession
Chapter IX - Exclusion from Inheritance and Partition
Chapter X - Women’s Property: Part I – Stridhana
Chapter XI - Women’s Property: Part II – Property Acquired by a Woman by Inheritance
Chapter XII - Joint Hindu Family Coparceners and Coparcenary Property – Mitakshara Law
Chapter XIII - Coparceners and Coparcenary Property under Dayabhaga Law
Chapter XIV - Debts Mitakshara Law
Chapter XV - Debts - Dayabhaga Law
Chapter XVI - Partition and Reunion - Mitakshara Law
Chapter XVII - Partition - Dayabhaga Law
Chapter XVIII - Gifts
Chapter XIX - Wills
Chapter XX - Rules Common to Gifts and Wills
Chapter XXI - Religious and Charitable Endowments
Chapter XXII - Marriage
Chapter XXIII - Adoption
Chapter XXIV - Minority and Guardianship
Chapter XXV - Maintenance
Chapter XXVI - Conversion from Hinduism, Khojas, Cutchi, Memons and Some Others
Chapter XXVII - Impartible Property
Chapter XXVIII - The Law of Damdupat
Chapter XXIX - Benami Transactions
Chapter XXX - Jains
Chapter XXXI - Shudras
Part II
The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
Chapter I - Preliminary
Chapter II - Hindu Marriages
Chapter III - Restitution of Conjugal Rights and Judicial Separation
Chapter IV - Nullity of Marriage and Divorce
Chapter V - Jurisdiction and Procedure
Chapter VI - Savings and Repeals
The Hindu Succession Act 1956
Chapter I - Preliminary
Chapter II - Intestate Succession
Chapter III - Testamentary Succession
Chapter IV - Repeals
The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956
The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act 1956
Chapter I - Preliminary
Chapter II - Adoption
Chapter III - Maintenance
Chapter IV - Repeals and Savings