Traditional Futures: Law and Custom in the Lakshadweep Islands

By V. Vijayakumar

This book is an informed analysis of the customary laws of the Lakshadweep Islands, which offer a rare example of a Muslim community whose rules of inheritance are based on matrilineal Hindu customary law.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195672275
• ISBN13: 9780195672275
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 356 Pages