Shah Bano & the Muslim Women Act a Decade On

Publication Author: 
Lucy Carroll (ed) , WLUML (co-published WRAG-WLUML Bombay)
Date: 
1998
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Subtitled 'The Right of the Divorced Muslim Women to Mataa', this is the case of an Indian Sunni woman who filled a petition in the Supreme Court arguing that the Muslim minority law applied to her in her divorce denied her rights otherwise guaranteed by the Constitution of India to all citizens.