6. The Consumer Protection Act (COPRA) 1986

• ‘Consumer Rights and its Expansion: Consumer rights and Responsibilities’, Centre for consumer action Training and Research, at
  http://www.cuts-international.org/Consumer-Rights.htm.
• Consumer Protection Act of India 1986.
  61 ‘Rights and Responsibilities of Consumer’, at http://www.nos.org/Secbuscour/25.pdf
  62 Ibid
  63 Ibid
• ‘Consumer Protection and National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission’, at http://ncdrc.nic.in.
• Consumer Voice, ‘Consumer Rights: Right to redress’, at
  http://www.consumer-voice.org.
• Indian Medical Association v. V.P. Shantha AIR 1996 SC 550,
  http://www.commonlii.org/in/cases/INSC/1995/658,html.
• Jacob Mathew v. State of Punjab & Anr. (2005)6 SCC 1
  http://www. commonlii.org/in/cases/INSC/2005/377,html.
• Jay Kumar Mittal v. Brilliant Tutorials, Original Petition No.51 of 1995 (Decided on 2 September 2005), at http://ncdrc.nic.in.
• S. Saraswathi, ‘Educate people on consumer rights’, The Tribune, 19 May 2003, at http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030519/biz.htm#1.
• State of Punjab v. Shiv Ram & Ors [2005] INSC 434
  http:// commonlii.org/in/cases/INSC/2005/434,html.

Promoting Consumerism

1. ‘Rights and Responsibilities of Consumers’, at http://www.nos.org/Secbuscour/25.pdf.
2. K.Srinivasan, ‘A new era in consumerism’, The Hindu, 31 October 1999, at
   http://www. induonnet.com/folio/fo9910/99100060.htm.
   

7. Historical Development of Women’s Rights

• Katherine T. Bartlett and Angela Harris (ed.), Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary,
  New York, Aspen Publications, third edition, 2002.
• Living the legacy: The Women’s Rights Movement 1848-1998
  http://www.legacy/98.org/move-hist.html.
• Modern History Sourcebook, The Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.html.
• Preamble to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 1979.
• Vienna Declaration And Programme of action. World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna,
  14-25 June 1993,
  http://www.unhchr.ch/huridocada/huridoca,nsf/(Symbol)/A.CONEF157.23.En?OpenDocument.
  

• UNRISD, ‘Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World’ http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpPublications)/
  1FF4AC64C1894EAAC1256FA3005E7201?OpenDocument.
• Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
• Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act.
  

• Harvinder Kaur v. Harminder Singh AIR 1984 Del 66.
• Githa Hariharan v. Reserve Bank of India.
• Pragati Varghese v. Cyril George Varghese AIR 1997 Bom 349.
• Mohammad Ahmad v. Shah Bano Begum AIR 1985 SC 945
• Sarla Mudgal v. Union of India ( 1995) 3 SCC 635.
• Indian Divorce (Amendment) Bill, 2001, http://indiacode.nic.in/fullact1.asp?tfnm=200151.
• Anon, What’s a Uniform Civil Code? Economic Times http://www.hvk.org/articles/0703/227.html.
• Pratap Bhanu Mehta, ‘Obscuring the real issues’, The Hindu 30 July 2003, http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/07/30/stories/2003073001431000.htm.