![]() ![]() ![]() Employing feminist legal analysis, she urges that India should improve the existing law by strictly nullifying all child marriages, ten years from now, even if this hurts certain people. Sagade essentially argues, rightfully, that Indian law has been too soft on the issue of child marriages, which continue to be legally valid all over South Asia today, despite legislative action since the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929. Despite much useful discussion of ‘the woman question’ in relation to child marriage, here is an example of how area studies today are being overshadowed by international legal studies which fail to engage deeply enough with glocalized elements, resulting in unrealistic top-down prescriptions and a sense of activist urgency that is not going to help the victims. ![]() The result is deeply unsatisfatory, even if this is a good book overall. This well-referenced study, the first Indian book on child marriage law in decades, places this conundrum in an international legal context, which then becomes the main focus. Book Review: Child Marriage in India: Socio-legal and Human Rights Dimensions Book Review: Child Marriage in India: Socio-legal and Human Rights Dimensionsīook Reviews 299 Jaya Sagade, Child Marriage in India: Socio-legal and Human Rights Dimensions (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2005), x1v + 257 pp. ![]()
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