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. 2015 Oct-Dec;57(4):341-4.
doi: 10.4103/0019-5545.171836.

Indian marriage laws and mental disorders: Is it necessary to amend the legal provisions?

Choudhary Laxmi Narayan  1 , Mridula Narayan  2 , Deep Shikha  1 , Shivendra Shekhar  1
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Indian marriage laws and mental disorders: Is it necessary to amend the legal provisions?

Choudhary Laxmi Narayan et al. Indian J Psychiatry. 2015 Oct-Dec.
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