Challenging Predictions of Uniform Civil Code for India: An analysis

Abstract

The conception of Uniform Civil Code in India is a term mentioning to an primary Civil Law Code. The Uniform Civil Code brings the idea of the same set of civil rules for the citizens irrespective of their religion, caste, creed etc. Civil law administers the matters relating to marriage, adoption, inheritance, succession and so on. India has adopted the concept of secularism and thus such matters of the citizens are still governed by the personal laws of their respective group of peoples. It’s the mandate upon the state as a directive principle of state policy to propagate a Uniform Civil Code for the whole country. But even after 67 years of independence, it is just a distant vision leading to various doubts in the illumination of personal laws.