General Contents;
Title Page;
Preface to Twenty-fifth Edition,
Contents;
Table of Cases;
Subject Index;
Introduction;
Part I:
1. Operation of Hindu Law;
2. Sources of Hindu Law;
3. General Principles of Inheritance;
4. Order of Inheritance of Males according to Mitakshara Law
5. Female Heirs;
6. Order of Succession to Males in the Bombay State;
7. Order of Inheritance to Males According to Dayabhaga or Bengal School;
8. Points of difference between Mitakshara and Daysbhaga Succession;
9. Exclusion from Inheritances and Parition;
10. Women’s Property: Part—I Stridhana;
11. Women’s Property: Part—II Property Acquired by a Woman by Inheritance;
12. Joint Hindu Family Corparceners and Copparcenary Propery –Mitakshara Law;
13. Coparceners and Corparcenary Property under Dayabhaga Law;
14. Debts—Mitakshara Law;
15. Debts—Dayabhaga Law
16. Partition And Reunion—Mitkshara Law;
17. Partition—Dayabhaga Law;
18. Gifts;
19. Wills;
20. Rules Common to Gifts and Wills;
21. Religious and Charitable Endowments;
22. Marriage;
23. Adoption
24. Minority and Guardianship;
25. Maintenance;
26. Conversion from Hinduism, Khojas, cutchi Memons and some other;
27. Impartible Property;
28. The Law of Damdupat;
29. Benami Transactions;
30. Jains;
31. Shudras;
Part II: The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955;
Introductory Note;
The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955;
Chapter 1. Preliminary;
Chapter 2. Hindu Marriages;
Chapter 3. Restitution of Conjugal Rights and Judicial Superation;
Chapter 4. Jurisdiction and Procedure;
Chapter 5. Savings and Repeals;
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956;
Introductory Note;
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956;
Chapter 1. Preliminary;
Chapter 2. Intestate Succession;
Chapter 2A. Succession by Survivorship;
Chapter 3. Testamentary succession;
Chapter 4. Repeals;
The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956’
Introductory Note;
The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956;
The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act,1956;
Introductory Note;
The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956,
Chapter 1. preliminary;
Chapter 2. Adoption;
Chapter 3. Maintenance;
Chapter 4. Repeals and Savings;
Appendices;
1. The Hindu Disposition of Property Act, 1916,
2. The Hindu Inheritance (Removal of Disabilities) Act, 1928,
3. The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929,
4. The Prohibition of Child of Learning Act, 1930,
5. The Hindu Gains of Learning Act, 1930,
6. The Hindu Women’s Rights to Property Act, 1937,
7. The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988,
8. The Marriage Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2010;