- The Dharmashastra and the Smriti literature served as the foundation for the Hindu legal system during the Middle Ages.
- There have been two main schools of personal law since the medieval era began, in the eighth century: Mitakshara, which is practiced in both North and South India, and Dayabhaga, which is practiced in the Bengal area.
- Muslims adhere to Shariat, an uncodified legal system derived from the Quran.
- Both the Muslim Shariat and the Hindu Law addressed every facet of life and made no distinction between rules, morality, and customs.
- Muslims and Hindus were mostly governed by their own sets of regional traditions and personal laws even throughout the Mughal Empire, which dominated the Indian subcontinent between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Nature of Family Laws in India