Gobinda Chandra Mandal Mandal
This article extensively explores marriage norms in ancient India, focusing on women's agency. It begins by dissecting the concept of marriage and its variations in ancient India and sheds light on its significance from women's viewpoints. It scrutinises the roles of women within the institution, in...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal
This article examines the development of minority rights and its protection system in the League of Nations. It traces the evolution of the concept of “minority” and the challenges of defining and designating it in international law. The paper also examines the content, guarantees, and implementatio...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal
This article reconstructs vyavahāra as a procedural jurisprudence that gives institutional life to Dharma by organising adjudication around reasoned decision, structured proof, and calibrated remedy. Drawing on the Smṛti and Dharmasūtra corpora and the Arthaśāstra, it maps a four-source architecture...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal, Shima Zaman
This article reconstructs how “marriageable age” in Hindu law was made across doctrinal, institutional, and evidentiary registers. It traces the shift from a guardianship- centred kanyādāna framework, where puberty and household competence acted as proxies, to a modern regime organised around consen...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal
This article presents a historical and legal analysis of women in ancient Hindu marital institutions. It traces developments from the Vedic corpus through the Sūtra, Smṛti and Purāṇic periods chronologically and connects them to the modern period. The study relies on close readings of canonical text...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal
This article explores the concept of stridhana within the Dayabhaga school of Hindu law for its historical, legal, and contemporary relevance in relation to the property rights of Hindu women in Bangladesh. It traces the evolution of stridhana from the Vedic to Smriti periods, highlighting its recog...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal
This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted roles and rights of women in ancient India, as reflected in Hindu legal texts. It examines how social norms influence women’s lives, from their education and intellectual development to the constraints and expectations that shape their...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal
This article examines the legal and social status of Hindu women in Bangladesh, with a focus on their rights to property, marriage, guardianship, maintenance and adoption. It also analyses the factors that contribute to their unequal status, such as religious dogmatism, patriarchal norms, social sti...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal
The paper investigates the historical and legal trajectory that Hindu women’s property rights have undertaken within the context provided by the ‘Dayabhaga’ authored by the medieval legal scholar Jimutavahana. The article introduces the biographical details of Jimutavahana, proceeds with the importa...