Law and social transformation in India / Oliver Mendelsohn.

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TextLanguage: English Series: Law in India seriesPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.Edition: First editionDescription: xxxii, 302 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9780198098478 (hbk.)
0198098472 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

340.1150954 23 MEN

Contents:

-- 1. The pathology of the Indian legal system 2. How Indian is Indian law? 3. The transformation of authority in rural India 4. The question of the 'Harijan atrocity' 5. From colonial to post-colonial law in India 6. The Indian legal profession, the courts and globalisation 7. Life and struggles in the stone quarries of India : a case study 8. The Supreme Court as the most trusted public institution in India 9. Law, terror and the Indian legal order.

Summary: This work uncovers the historical roots and also the contemporary character of law and society in India. Steeped in years of fieldwork in both rural and urban India, the work places the new legal forces and processes introduced into India by the British alongside those that predated the colonial incursion and still have vitality today. Indian law is now undergoing a period of comparatively rapid change. Globalisation has brought dynamism to some of the law firms of India, particularly in Mumbai, and this impact is considered here. There is growing impatience with the slowness and inefficiencies of the courts - though, contrary to much opinion, litigation is seen here to be declining rather than growing. Meanwhile, there has been cumulatively dramatic change to authority in the countryside. The great flagship of Indian law continues to be the uniquely activist Supreme Court and its Public Interest Litigation, but equally intriguing are the group-based and sometimes law-like activities of washerfolk in rural Rajasthan, diamond traders in downtown Mumbai, and the myriad communities in the great 'slums' of urban India. These are the themes taken up in this volume"--Unedited summary from book jacket.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Social Sciences	Non-fiction	340.1150954 MEN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		40939

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1. The pathology of the Indian legal system 2. How Indian is Indian law? 3. The transformation of authority in rural India 4. The question of the 'Harijan atrocity' 5. From colonial to post-colonial law in India 6. The Indian legal profession, the courts and globalisation 7. Life and struggles in the stone quarries of India : a case study 8. The Supreme Court as the most trusted public institution in India 9. Law, terror and the Indian legal order.

This work uncovers the historical roots and also the contemporary character of law and society in India. Steeped in years of fieldwork in both rural and urban India, the work places the new legal forces and processes introduced into India by the British alongside those that predated the colonial incursion and still have vitality today. Indian law is now undergoing a period of comparatively rapid change. Globalisation has brought dynamism to some of the law firms of India, particularly in Mumbai, and this impact is considered here. There is growing impatience with the slowness and inefficiencies of the courts - though, contrary to much opinion, litigation is seen here to be declining rather than growing. Meanwhile, there has been cumulatively dramatic change to authority in the countryside. The great flagship of Indian law continues to be the uniquely activist Supreme Court and its Public Interest Litigation, but equally intriguing are the group-based and sometimes law-like activities of washerfolk in rural Rajasthan, diamond traders in downtown Mumbai, and the myriad communities in the great 'slums' of urban India. These are the themes taken up in this volume"--Unedited summary from book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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