Law and Society in Modern India
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9780195632057
Publication date:
01/10/1997
Paperback
432 pages
275x217mm
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ISBN:
9780195632057
Publication date:
01/10/1997
Paperback
432 pages
Marc Galanter, Rajeev Dhavan
This collection of essays explores the unique character of Indian law, shaped by its Western origins yet deeply influenced by local social conditions. Marc Galanter examines how formal legal systems adapt to the complexities of Indian society, addressing themes such as equality, hierarchy, secularism, justice, caste, and affirmative action. The volume offers valuable insights for students of Indian society and comparative law.
Rights: World Rights
Marc Galanter, Rajeev Dhavan
Description
Since a large body of modern Indian law is Western, it will not, according to some, further one's understanding of India. Galanter goes on to qualify this statement by arguing that this very fact lends to `Indian law a unique and compelling interest for students of India and of comparative law'. Galanter tries to show the various ways in which a complex body of formal law accommodates and adjusts itself to local conditons to which it is alien. These essays range over a wide span of normative and structural issues of Indian society, such as equality, hierarchy, secularism, justice and conceptual problems; group membership, panchayat, justice, cast and policies of positive discrimination.
About the Authors
Marc Galanter, Evjue-Boscom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, MadisonEdited with an introduction by Rajeev Dhavan
Marc Galanter, Rajeev Dhavan
Review
`He discusses, with an almost incredible knowledge of all the relevant cases, the law's difficulties in reconciling the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom with the equally constitutional prohibition of untouchability ... Rajiv Dhawan has written a long introduction. The scholarship is masterly, the writing is elegant.' Asian Affairs -,`important collection of papers ... Between the covers of this book ... there is much valuable substance. Anybody interested in Indian law will benefit from reading it, and would probably do well to read parts of it more than once' Law Quarterly Review -
Marc Galanter, Rajeev Dhavan
Description
Since a large body of modern Indian law is Western, it will not, according to some, further one's understanding of India. Galanter goes on to qualify this statement by arguing that this very fact lends to `Indian law a unique and compelling interest for students of India and of comparative law'. Galanter tries to show the various ways in which a complex body of formal law accommodates and adjusts itself to local conditons to which it is alien. These essays range over a wide span of normative and structural issues of Indian society, such as equality, hierarchy, secularism, justice and conceptual problems; group membership, panchayat, justice, cast and policies of positive discrimination.
About the Authors
Marc Galanter, Evjue-Boscom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin, MadisonEdited with an introduction by Rajeev Dhavan
Anu Bradford
Nadine Strossen
Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Lokendra Malik
Upendra Baxi, Amita Dhanda
Flavia Agnes, Sudhir Chandra, Monmayee Basu
The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
Martin Loughlin
The Moral Rights of Authors and Artists
Mira T. Sundara Rajan
Adam Chilton and Kyle Rozema
B.N Kirpal, Ashok H. Desai, Gopal Subramanian, Rajeev Dhavan, Raju Ramchandran
