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Sri Lanka and Mauritius have implemented anti-discrimination laws, [3] whereas Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu provide support to transgender people. The law in Sri Lanka is legally dormant. [4] [5] The entire political spectrum of Tamil Nadu supports transgender and third gender people.
Unmarried cohabitation in Sri Lanka became a punishable offence from the Dutch colonial period in 1580. [53] Andi Fein argued that prohibitions against homosexual marriage in Chinese Buddhism stem from Confucianism, and that studies of Buddhism and Hinduism in India and Sri Lanka show no such prohibitions existed there. [54] [55]
Sri Lankan Hindus Hindu temple festival in Colombo in 1900s. Total population 2,561,299 (2012) 12.6% of its total population Religions Hinduism Shaivism (majority) Vaishnavism and Shaktism (minority) Scriptures Ramayana and Vedas Languages Old Tamil and Sanskrit (sacred) Tamil (majority) and Sinhala (minority) Hinduism by country Africa Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi ...
An Indian state has approved an unprecedented uniform code for marriage, divorce, adoption and inheritance for Hindus, Muslims and other religious communities under new legislation that also ...
Marriage law is the body of legal specifications and requirements and other laws that regulate the initiation, continuation, and validity of marriages, an aspect of family law, that determine the validity of a marriage, and which vary considerably among countries in terms of what can and cannot be legally recognized by the state.
Sri Lanka Economic Association Act 2011: 19 July: 34/2011: 49: Anuradhapura Sri Puspadana Development Foundation (Incorporation) Act 2011: 22 August: 35/2011: 50: Pahalagama Sri Somarathana Nayaka Thero Foundation (Incorporation) Act 2011: 23 August: 36/2011: 51: Lester James Peries & Sumithra Peries Foundation Act 2011: 23 August: 37/2011: 52
In India, where most Hindus live, the laws relating to marriage differ by religion. According to the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, passed by the Parliament of India, for all legal purposes, all Hindus of any caste, creed or sect, Sikh, Buddhists and Jains are deemed Hindus and can intermarry.
The legal system in Sri Lanka comprises collections of codified and uncodified forms of law, of many origins subordinate to the Constitution of Sri Lanka which is the highest law of the island. Its legal framework is a mixture of legal systems of Roman-Dutch law , English law , Kandian law , Thesavalamai and Muslim law .