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SivuammQya (15119) who hll! himsdf made nn Imporlnnt contnbutlon 10 the unrlerslnnding of the Hindu law of Inheritan~e in hls w~ll·rClcarched monog'Hph (19;3). There nrc two handy antholoalCi on Ihe probleml of dev;llng n uni form clyll code: one b~ Narmada Khodl~ (191S) and, the other by Tahir Mahmood (l916)-leeallo Indian Law Institute (1978b). lielS of v3lues l1monG a cross-seclion of lhe academic elile. ln generally lukewarm towards Ihe idea of the uniform civil code really need no alibi for doing nothing; bUllbould there be felt nerd.

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