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Law of India •         India was a collection of kingdoms and empires, which were constantly at war with each other. •         The ancient empire of King Ashoka and the later Mughal Empire united a substantial portion of the nation. •           However, modern India took shape with the conquest of the nation by the British which started in the late 17 the century. Indian... •         India became independent in 1947 •           As a consequence of over centuries of British rule, a substantial portion of Indian law and Indian legal institutions are based on British law. •           During the ancient times the India was inhabited predominantly by Hindus and the legal system took its colour from the Hindu religious and social practices.. ...

About the Author Sandra Cisneros the writer of the essay ‘Only Daughter’ was born into a working-class family in 1954. She was the daughter of a Mexican-American mother and a Mexican father. She spent much of her childhood shuttling between Chicago and Mexico City. She was a lonely, bookish child who began writing surreptitiously at a young age but only began to find her voice when she was a creative-writing student at Loyola University and later at the University of lowa Writers’ Workshop. Her best-known works are the novel The House on Mango Street (1983) and the short-story collection Woman Hollering Creek (1991); she has also published several collections of poetry. Cisneros’s latest novel, Caramelo, appeared in 2002. Background on gender preference In the following essay, which originally appeared in Glamour magazine in 1990, Cisneros describes the difficulties of growing up as the only daughter in a Mexican-American family of six sons. Historically, sons...