ivorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India is a timely (re)telling of the complex story of personal law in post-independence India. Marking legal historian Saumya Saxena’s debut, the book traverses numerous themes of historical and continued relevance to the fabric of India’s democracy. These include—but are not limited to—the relationship between law and religion, the ‘content’ and ‘vocabulary’ of India’s democracy, gender, and minority rights. In the process, Saxena animates the plurality of actors and acts that have impacted the course of the story of personal law and challenges the centrality often accorded to the state in such discourses. Saxena’s inquiry unfolds across six chapters that are prefaced by an introduction and succeeded by a conclusion styled as a postscript.