UNIFORM CIVIL CODE: A TRANSFER OF BIO-POWER FROM RELIGIOUS PATRIARCHY TO THE STATE by Mrinalini Kumar
Author : Mrinalini Kumar , M.A. Political Science , University of Delhi ABSTRACT: Personal Laws have controlled how families are structured and rights are ascertained at the grassroots’ level. They have come to structure our identities thereby differentiating ‘us’ from ‘them’ and ‘self’ from ‘other’. Uniform Civil Code (UCC), thus, has been proposed as a panacea to all the evils in India that are apparently propagated by personal laws that…