Volume 9, Issue 2, November 2014, Pages 523–533
Asad ur rehman1, Shamas ul deen2, and Sadaf farooq3
1 UNDP Research Fellow, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Development studies department, Quied-e-azam university campus, Islamabad, Pakistan
2 Research Associate, Management Sciences Department, Comsats University, Virtual Campus secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan
3 Research Associate, Management Sciences Department, Comsats University, Virtual Campus secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The colonial rule of west left ineffaceable imprints over the discourse of Law and on its practice in India. The Public and private sphere of life dealt by two different laws; secular and religious respectively. The economic needs of Raj in India were forced British to collaborate with local notables, women of India and then subsequently of Pakistan denied any opportunity or freedom promised by colonial government. Those coded personal laws to this day in Pakistan is one of the reason hurting the effort of Pakistani women in getting her rightful place in society.
Author Keywords: Political and Economic History, Personal Law, Pakistan.
Asad ur rehman1, Shamas ul deen2, and Sadaf farooq3
1 UNDP Research Fellow, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Development studies department, Quied-e-azam university campus, Islamabad, Pakistan
2 Research Associate, Management Sciences Department, Comsats University, Virtual Campus secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan
3 Research Associate, Management Sciences Department, Comsats University, Virtual Campus secretariat, Islamabad, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The colonial rule of west left ineffaceable imprints over the discourse of Law and on its practice in India. The Public and private sphere of life dealt by two different laws; secular and religious respectively. The economic needs of Raj in India were forced British to collaborate with local notables, women of India and then subsequently of Pakistan denied any opportunity or freedom promised by colonial government. Those coded personal laws to this day in Pakistan is one of the reason hurting the effort of Pakistani women in getting her rightful place in society.
Author Keywords: Political and Economic History, Personal Law, Pakistan.
How to Cite this Article
Asad ur rehman, Shamas ul deen, and Sadaf farooq, “Political and Economic History of Personal Law in Pakistan,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 523–533, November 2014.
