Role and Image of Law in India: The Tribal Experience

Role and Image of Law in India: The Tribal Experience
Author:
Publisher: Sage
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789352808878

The relationship between tribes and the state with reference to the Indian legal structure is the focus of this book which fills a gap in the literature. Examining three tribes of India, the author traces the historical roots of their dispossession, their engagement with and subjugation by the British, and how their ordeal of disempowerment continues, even after independence. The book offers new research data from a variety of sources and by bringing together insights from anthropology, ancient history and law, it draws political conclusions that are deeply relevant in today's world.

Role and Image of Law in India

Role and Image of Law in India
Author: Vasudha Dhagamwar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2006
Genre: Indigenous peoples
ISBN: 9788178295381

She ends with a brief examination of indigenous people colonised elsewhere by Europeans."--BOOK JACKET.

Role and Image of Law in India

Role and Image of Law in India
Author: Vasudha Dhagamwar
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2006-02-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761933946

The relationship between tribes and the state with reference to the Indian legal structure is the focus of this book which fills a gap in the literature. Examining three tribes of India, the author traces the historical roots of their dispossession, their engagement with and subjugation by the British, and how their ordeal of disempowerment continues, even after independence. The book offers new research data from a variety of sources and by bringing together insights from anthropology, ancient history and law, it draws political conclusions that are deeply relevant in today′s world.

The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia

The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia
Author: Partha S. Ghosh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136705120

It is a political study of the controversy surrounding the issue of the uniform civil code vis-à-vis personal laws from a South Asian perspective. At the centre of the debate is whether there should be a centralized view of the legal system in a given society or a decentralized view, both horizontally and vertically. This issue is entangled within the threads of identity politics, minority rights, women’s rights, national integration, global Islamic politics and universal human rights. Champions of each category view it through their own prisms, making the debate extremely complex, especially in politically and socially plural South Asia. So, this book attempts to harmonize the threads of the debate to provide a holistic political analysis.

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice
Author: Kalpana Kannabiran
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-07-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000606295

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice: Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights presents some of the finest essays on social justice, rights and public policy. With a lucid new Introduction, it covers a vast range of issues and offers a compelling guide to understanding law and socio- legal studies in South Asia. The book covers critical themes such as the jurisprudence of rights, justice, dignity, with a focus on the regimes of patriarchy, labour and dispossession. The fourteen chapters in the volume, divided into three sections, examine contested sites of the constitution, courts, prisons, land and complex processes of migration, trafficking, digital technology regimes, geographical indications and their entanglements. This multidisciplinary volume foregrounds the politics and plural lives of/ in law by including perspectives from major authors who have contributed to the academic and/ or policy discourse of the subject. This book will be useful to students, scholars, policymakers and practitioners interested in a nuanced understanding of law, especially those studying law, marginality and violence. It will serve as essential reading for those in law, socio- legal studies, legal history, South Asian studies, human rights, jurisprudence and constitutional studies, gender studies, history, politics, conflict and peace studies, sociology and social anthropology. It will also appeal to legal historians and practitioners of law, and those in public administration, development studies, environmental studies, migration studies, cultural studies, labour studies and economics.

Tribe, Space and Mobilisation

Tribe, Space and Mobilisation
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811900590

This book presents multidisciplinary critical engagement in Tribe-British relations, the interfacing between colonial mind and tribal worldview, and some of their contemporary implications to conceptualise tribal space and mobilisation at national, regional, and native levels. The approach, argument, and theoretical underpinnings introduce a new perspective dimension of enquiry in tribal studies and enlarge its scope as a distinct academic discipline. It provides theoretical and methodological insights and an innovative analytical frame for a grand intellectual engagement beyond the boundary of conventional disciplines but within the interactive matrix of India’s social, cultural, political, religious, and economic space. The book is a pioneering work in the emerging field of tribal studies and a vital reference point for students and academics and non-academics alike who are engaged in tribal issues.

Democratic Decentralization in India

Democratic Decentralization in India
Author: E. Venkatesu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317192303

This book explores experiences, issues and challenges which have emerged since Constitutional status was granted to the local bodies at grassroots level in India in the early 1990s. Among other issues, it focuses on: the contrasting political ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar on Panchayati Raj Institutions the legal and constitutional provisions which were introduced through the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts the devolution process, status and challenges of democracy for local governmental bodies empowerment of the women and lower castes through reservations in the local bodies governance in Schedule V and VI tribal areas Based on extensive fieldwork across India, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of political science, sociology, public administration as well as policymakers and civil society activists.

Resettling Displaced People

Resettling Displaced People
Author: Hari Mohan Mathur
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2012-03-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136704205

Developmental projects have long been displacing people in large numbers every year, but it is only in recent years that the fate of those adversely affected has become an issue of widespread concern requiring urgent action. This volume is the scholarly exploration of these critical issues in a wider perspective, examining resettlement policies as well as resettlement strategies, their strengths, their weaknesses, the persisting gap between policy and its actual practice and the means to improve resettlement outcomes. This volume is well-structured into four parts: (a) Displacement and Resettlement in Developmental Projects (b) Re-examining Resettlement Policies (c) Addressing Resettlement Concerns and (d) Resettlement in a Globalizing World. It goes beyond the common description of resettlement problems and attempts at gaining a deeper understanding of resettlement realities. In a separate section, the book discusses the hotly debated current issues of resettlement policy and practice in the context of globalization. The volume contains original case studies which will bring to academic and policy tables a body of important new ideas that will stimulate debates and also hopefully change and improve current practices. The contributors to this volume are eminent scholars, including some who have played a vital role in shaping resettlement policies as well as in implementing projects at the grassroots level.

A Qualified Hope

A Qualified Hope
Author: Gerald N. Rosenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108474500

Examines whether the Indian Supreme Court can produce progressive social change and improve the lives of the relatively disadvantaged.

A Companion to the Anthropology of India

A Companion to the Anthropology of India
Author: Isabelle Clark-Decès
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2011-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1405198923

A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India’s globalization in the twenty-first century. Provides readers with an important new introduction to the anthropology of India Explores the larger global issues that have transformed India since the end of colonization, including demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and religious issues Contributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of key topics such as population and life expectancy, civil society, social-moral relationships, caste and communalism, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, environment and health, tourism, public and religious cultures, politics and law Represents an authoritative guide for professional social and cultural anthropologists, and South Asian specialists, and an accessible reference work for students engaged in the analysis of India’s modern transformation