Contents:
Part I : Principles of Hindu Law;
Chapter I - Operation of Hindu Law 91;
Chapter II - Sources of Hindu Law 99;
Chapter III - General Principles of Inheritance 109;
Chapter IV - Order of Inheritance of Males According to Mitakshara Law 117;
Chapter V - Female Heirs 183;
Chapter VI - Order of Succession to Males in the Bombay State 189;
Chapter VII - Order of Inheritance to Males According to Dayabhaga or Bengal School 195;
Chapter VIII - Points of Difference between Mitakshara and Dayabhaga Succession 205;
Chapter IX - Exclusion from Inheritance and Partition 207;
Chapter X - Women’s Property: Part I – Stridhana 215;
Chapter XI - Women’s Property: Part II – Property Acquired by a Woman by Inheritance 251;
Chapter XII - Joint Hindu Family Coparceners and Coparcenary Property – Mitakshara Law 321;
Chapter XIII - Coparceners and Coparcenary Property under Dayabhaga Law 431;
Chapter XIV - Debts Mitakshara Law 439;
Chapter XV - Debts - Dayabhaga Law 487;
Chapter XVI - Partition and Reunion - Mitakshara Law 489;
Chapter XVII - Partition - Dayabhaga Law 543;
Chapter XVIII - Gifts 549;
Chapter XIX - Wills 557;
Chapter XX - Rules Common to Gifts and Wills 571;
Chapter XXI - Religious and Charitable Endowments 597;
Chapter XXII - Marriage 637;
Chapter XXIII - Adoption 657;
Chapter XXIV - Minority and Guardianship 717;
Chapter XXV - Maintenance 735;
Chapter XXVI - Conversion from Hinduism, Khojas, Cutchi, Memons and Some Others 767;
Chapter XXVII - Impartible Property 773;
Chapter XXVIII - The Law of Damdupat 783;
Chapter XXIX - Benami Transactions 789;
Chapter XXX - Jains 799;
Chapter XXXI - Shudras 805;
Part II
The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955:
Chapter I - Preliminary 837;
Chapter II - Hindu Marriages 854;
Chapter III - Restitution of Conjugal Rights and Judicial Separation 870;
Chapter IV - Nullity of Marriage and Divorce 882;
Chapter V - Jurisdiction and Procedure 980;
Chapter VI - Savings and Repeals 1061
The Hindu Succession Act 1956;
Chapter I - Preliminary 1080;
Chapter II - Intestate Succession 1092;
Chapter II A - Succession by survivorship 1228;
Chapter III - Testamentary Succession 1234;
Chapter IV - Repeals 1237;
The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956;
Introductory note 1241;
The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 1247;
The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act 1956;
Chapter I - Preliminary 1291;
Chapter II - Adoption 1297;
Chapter III - Maintenance 1325;
Chapter IV - Repeals and Savings 1352;
Appendix:
Appendix I - The Hindu Disposition of Property Act 1916 1355;
Appendix II - The Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act 1928 1357;
Appendix III - The Child Marriage Restraint Act 1929 1358;
Appendix IV - The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 1361;
Appendix V - The Hindu Gains of Learning Act, 1930 1367;
Appendix VI - The Hindu Women’s Rights to Property Act 1937 1369;
Appendix VII - The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988 1370;
Appendix VIII – The marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010 1373;