Contractor, Qudsiya

Uniform Civil Code and the Future of Individual Freedom - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(23), Jun 07, 2025: p.17-19

With the implementation of a uniform civil code in Uttarakhand, there seems to be a new trend in legal reform that pushes forward an ideology of paternalism rather than bringing about a culture of gender equality. By policing live-in relationships, it controls public visibilities of cross-cultural intimacies, restricting the will to love freely while encouraging the idea of a society based on sexual regulation. -Reproduced

https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/23/commentary/uniform-civil-code-and-future-individual-freedom.html


Uniform Civil Code, Uttarakhand, Gender equality, cross-culture intimacies