THE EVOLUTION OF ADOPTION JURISPRUDENCE IN INDIA: LEGAL FRAMEWORK, PROCEDURES AND CHILD PROTECTION MECHANISMS

This was because of a recently drastic shift in adoption law (which had now moved from a process primarily for the salvation of souls to an internal legal system concerned about the welfare and protection of children). This article is to try and review the adoption laws, with special focus on Historical Importance Of Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (HAMA), 1956. Adoption practices were even regulated by old Hindu texts meant at getting a boy to perform the last rites of someone in his family lineage — historically giving women an unenviable position of sacrificing their right to equality and…