Upon the granting of a divorce decree in the wife's favour the court has power to grant the wife permanent alimony, the amount of which depends on all such facts as the husband's fortune and income, the wife's income and needs and the social status of the parties. If there are children under full age, the issue of the marriage, the court will in the exercise of its discretion make such order concerning their custody, support and education as the ends of justice may require. JUDICIAL SEPARATION.--Under the Divorce and Matrimonial Compilation Act a decree of judicial separation, which is the same in effect as a divorce from bed and board under the old law, may be obtained by either spouse upon the following grounds: 1. Adultery. 2. Cruelty. 3. Desertion without just cause continued for two years. SUMMARY JURISDICTION ACT.--Besides the ordinary suit for a judicial separation a wife may obtain speedy and inexpensive relief by making an application to a stipendiary magistrate for an order of separation and maintenance. The causes sufficient for the granting of such relief are: A. Habitual drunkenness of the husband, coupled with habitual cruelty to, or neglect of, the wife and family. B. Desertion by the husband of his wife. C. Habitual cruelty of the husband toward his wife. D. Neglect of the husband to provide reasonable maintenance for his wife and minor children. A husband is entitled to summary relief permitting him a separation order upon proof that his wife is an habitual drunkard who habitually neglects her household duties. CHAPTER XXXIII. THE HINDU LAW. For every person in the world whose rule of civil conduct is based upon the English system of jurisprudence there are two others to whom Hindu law is both binding by political authority and the rule of conscience. The student of law and world politics will note with interest two impressive facts concerning Hindu jurisprudence in India. The first is that until the accession of British rule in that country the Hindu law was not law in the sense in which the term is understood by lawyers. The second fact is that the acknowledged jurisconsults and commentators upon the Hindu law of to-day are not Hindus, but British and Anglo-Indian jurists. Prof. Golapchandra Sarkar, in his admirable treatise, says: "The administration of the Hindu law by the English judges shows forth in clear light the administrative capacity, the indomitable energy, the scrupulous care and the strong common sense of the English nation." In treating of the marriage and divorce laws of over two hundred and twenty-five millions of human beings who are Hindus by race and religion, the first question to be answered is: What is Hindu law? Hindu law is the whole body of rules regulating the life of a Hindu in relation to his civil conduct and the performance of his religious duties grouped together under the general name of _Dharma Sastra_, or religious ordinances.