Uniform Civil Code — The State-by-State Rollout

A Uniform Civil Code, long a Directive Principle under Article 44 and a promise no central government has redeemed, is now arriving state by state. Uttarakhand switched on India's first post-Independence UCC in January 2025; Gujarat's assembly followed in March 2026, and Assam's in May, becoming the third state and the first in the Northeast to legislate one. All three, all BJP-governed, replace religion-based personal laws on marriage, divorce, succession and even live-in relationships with a single secular code while carving out Scheduled Tribes. The result is a live experiment in what a UCC looks like in practice, before any national version exists.