This book contains selected judgements on multifarious matrimonial issues where in the husband has been able to establish the cruelty by the wife resulting in denial of maintenance, able to get the divorce and quash 498A proceedings. This book also compiles judgements wherein the wife has made false allegations and was later exposed; fighting multiple maintenance proceedings; winning transfer petitions and child custody cases, etc. Husbands are not ATM machines. Men are not Born Criminals; Women are not Born Saints.

Maintenance of dependents, is a pious duty of human beings but in certain circumstances it is also a statutory liability with a corresponding right vested in the dependent, to legally enforce this duty through court of law. Entitlement to maintenance is a complex right in India. In certain relationships, the right and corresponding liability is rigid but in other circumstances it is dependent upon the various other factors. The matter is further made complex by various personal laws in respect of citizens belonging to different religions and also a variety of forums. This book of about 800 pages attempts to assimilate all the aspects of this branch of family law, as far as possible.

Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a women's movement evolved in India when it did. She describes the nature, origins, and meanings of the movement for Indian women and discusses the movement's significance for Indian politics in general as w