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Q47
(IAS/1995)
Polity & Governance › Constitutional Basics & Evolution › Constitutionalism and government
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In which one of the following States of India it is legal for a Hindu male and illegal for a Muslim male to have more than one living wife ?
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Explanation
The correct answer is Goa. Goa is a notable exception in India’s family-law landscape: the state (and the former union territories of Daman & Diu) has long been governed by a distinct Portuguese-derived civil code and local practice that produced anomalous outcomes on bigamy and personal law; sources note that bigamy has been treated differently in Goa than elsewhere in India. By contrast, across the rest of India Muslim personal law permits polygyny (up to four wives) under traditional Muslim law, making the typical legal pattern the reverse of the Goa anomaly [1]. Hence among the given options the state where the legal position for Hindus vs Muslims is reversed is Goa [1].
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- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygyny_in_India
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