Law and Society in Modern India
by Galanter, Marc; Dhavan, RajeevFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-08-19
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Though "modern Indian law" is actually of Western origin, Galanter here contends that independent India has accepted this mid-twentieth century legal system intellectually and institutionally. His thirteen articles, covering a wide range of issues in Indian society, explore the operation of modern Indian law and explicate the ways in which a complex body of formal law accommodates and adjusts itself to local conditions to which it is alien.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Uses of law in Indian studies | |
| The uses of law in Indian studies | |
| The emergence of the modern legal system | |
| The displacement of traditional law in modern India | |
| The aborted restoration of indigenous law in India | |
| Panchayat justice | |
| An Indian experiment in legal access - with Upendra Baxi | |
| Indian law as an indigenous conceptual system | |
| Legal conceptions of the social structure | |
| Group membership and group preferences in India | |
| Changing legal conceptions of caste | |
| Pursuing equality in the land of hierarchy | |
| Pursuing equality in the land of hierarchy | |
| Assessment of India's policies of compensatory discrimination for historically disadvantaged groups | |
| Missed opportunitites | |
| The use and non-use of law favourable to untouchables and other specially vulnerable groups | |
| Judges, Lawyers and social reform | |
| Hinduism, secularism and the Indian judiciary | |
| Symbolic activism | |
| Judicial encounter with the contours of India's compensatory discrimination policy | |
| New patterns of legal services in India | |
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