{"id":8539,"date":"2026-02-24T04:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwosl\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:59:29","slug":"continuing-custom-indigenous-inheritance-in-the-indian-supreme-courts-kishwar-v-bihar-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/continuing-custom-indigenous-inheritance-in-the-indian-supreme-courts-kishwar-v-bihar-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing Custom\u2019: Indigenous Inheritance in the Indian Supreme Court\u2019s Kishwar v Bihar Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Australian Journal of Asian Law, 2024, Vol 25 No 1, Article 2: 23-37<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Sandeep Kindo*<\/p>\n<p>This article offers an analysis of the dissenting judgment\u2019s understanding of indigenous inheritance custom in the gender inequity dispute in the Indian Supreme Court\u2019s 1996 Kishwar v Bihar decision. It examines how the contemporary Indian judicial system uses modern law in interpreting and recognising tribal customs, specifically inheritance custom. The article finds that the law\u2019s description of custom in \u2018ancientness\u2019 and \u2018invariability\u2019 terms poses difficulties for the distinct tribal inheritance custom, which this article views as \u2018continuing custom\u2019. It also shows how judicial interpretation privileges workable custom evidence by ignoring the impasse between custom\u2019s conceptual understanding and evidentiary requirements in the general law. The article offers a new theoretical perspective on the central problem of indigenous inheritance custom recognition by seeking to reconcile the impasse with \u2018continuing custom\u2019 that views temporality as essential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jgu.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/cwosl\/Indigenous+Inheritance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Journal of Asian Law, 2024, Vol 25 No 1,  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8585,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions\/8585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/jgls\/cwogsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}