User:Lphil0201/sandbox

India is by nature a culturally diverse country with a variety of religions, castes and communities. The use of family laws and policies has been extremely important in governing the country's different groups, which have differing interests, customs and needs. Muslim law has evolved over the course of India's political history. Three factors are particularly relevant to changes in family law: regulating family life, understanding group norms, and establishing a vision for family life.

My aim is to examine post independence India and how Shariat Personal law changed throughout this time. I will be adding this to the British India section which talks about the initial passing of the Shariat Act in 1937. I also wish to look add a section called Current Debates related to Muslim Personal Law and its various implications regarding gender identity, citizenship, women's rights, and legal systems where I will tie in my sources. Through these two tasks I will be able to analyze in detail the progression of Muslim Personal Law and add to the article which, as of now hardly includes much information on the topic. As of now, there is only a brief description of the history related to Muslim law as well as rules related to divorce and inheritance. So, I plan on going more in-depth on the subjects by using the different aspects of Muslim Law previously listed and thereby talk about the effects on society from British Independence up until the present.

Feedback from CVT:

- Current Debates would be a great section to add. Read your sources, in order to (i) identify key positions in current debates -- for eg. Muslim leaders, feminist approaches, including Muslim feminist approaches, Hindu nationalist approaches/attacks ... any others that your sources mention; and, (ii) key issues that are the focus of current debates about Muslim Personal Law.

- Consider making a link in your drafting, if possible, to the "Goa civil code" Wikipedia article, where, as you may remember, Nao is writing about India's one experiment with the Universal Civil Code.