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Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu Code: A Victory of Symbol over Substance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Reba Som
Reba Som
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Nehru Memorial Museum Library
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If to Gandhi goes the credit of having drawn out Indian women from their cloistered protected environment to join the national movement for freedom, to Jawaharlal Nehru surely goes the credit for having recognized the need formally to grant equality between the sexes and to enshrine it in the Fundamental Rights drawn up at the Karachi Congress of 1931.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 1994 , pp. 165 - 194
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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