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BLS LLB 5 Years · Sem 7
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The answers in this volume state the law as it stands today, not as it stood when the paper was set, and in this subject three amendments and two new codes do the work. The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 made a daughter a coparcener by birth, abolished survivorship and the pious obligation for later debts, and omitted Sections 23 and 24, so a remarried widow is no longer disqualified from inheriting; the Personal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2010 rewrote Section 8 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act so that a married woman may adopt with her husband's consent, where before she could not adopt at all, and gave the father and mother an equal right to give a child in adoption; and the Personal Laws (Amendment) Act, 2019 removed leprosy as a ground of divorce and as a ground of separate maintenance. The older papers here were set before some of those changes and are answered on the law as amended, with the date of the change given. Where a question turns on the criminal law, the answers give the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 and name the section of the Indian Penal Code or the Criminal Procedure Code that each replaced, and they record that adultery ceased to be an offence in Joseph Shine in 2018 while remaining a ground of divorce.
Contents
The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Apr 2015 examination, in the order it was set.
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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 100 · 25 questions answered
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1. Answer in one or two sentences, all 10 20 Marks
(1)What is meant by westernization?[2]
Answer
Westernisation is the term M.N. Srinivas gave to the changes brought about in Indian society and culture by over a hundred and fifty years of British rule, covering changes at every level, in technology, institutions, ideology and values.
It is not sanskritisation, which Srinivas defined in the same work as the process by which a lower caste takes over the customs, ritual and way of life of a higher caste to raise its position. Sanskritisation moves a group up inside the existing order; westernisation changes the order itself.
What it changed, in family law. English education after Macaulay's Minute of 1835 produced the class from which the reformers came. A uniform criminal law and a uniform law of contract and property were introduced across religions, leaving only the family to personal law, which is the gap Article 44 addresses. Salaried employment broke the joint household into nuclear units. And women gained education, employment, property and the right to divorce.
The legislation is the measurable part. The Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829; the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856; the Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929; then the Hindu Code Bills, which gave monogamy by section 5(i), divorce by section 13, the daughter as an heir by the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, and absolute ownership for a woman by its section 14.
Srinivas said westernisation is ethically neutral, a description and not a judgment, and the standard criticism is that it credits to the British changes Indian reformers fought for, Raja Ram Mohan Roy on sati and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar on widow remarriage being the obvious examples.
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