UCC Explained: What changes for you and what doesn’t

What changes for you and what doesn’t under UCCThe phrase Uniform Civil Code sounds deceptively simple. One country. One civil code. One set of rules for everyone, irrespective of religion.But India's experiment with the UCC reveals a more complicated reality.A Hindu woman in Uttarakhand does not necessarily experience the UCC in the same way as a Muslim woman. A Christian family may see a different set of changes from a Muslim family. Some provisions alter the law substantially for one community while making relatively little difference to another.This is particularly clear in two areas: marriage and inheritance.The UCC's prohibition of polygamy is a major change for Muslims because Muslim personal law traditionally permitted a Muslim man to have more than one wife. But Hindu, Sikh, Chris