Man and His Environment

The search for a more rational divorce law in keeping with the altered socio-economic conditions in contemporary society has constantly agitated the minds of social scientists and reformers. For more than a century the divorce law in Christian Europe as also in other parts of the world following Common Law traditions was entrenched in religious moorings. The showing of the "fault" or "guilt" of one of the spouses before divorce could be authorised, has been the basis. But soon it was realized th