Routledge readings on law and social justice dispossessions, marginalities, rights / edited by Kalpana Kannabiran.

Other author Kannabirān, Kalpana
Format Electronic
EditionFirst South Asian edition.
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Descriptionxv, 380 pages illustrations (black and white), maps 24 cm
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Portion of title Readings on law and social justice
Portion of title Law and social justice
Physical mediumillustrations
Physical mediummaps
SeriesRoutledge readings
Contents List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction : Exploring the contours of interdisciplinary law / Kalpana Kannabiran -- Part 1 : Colonialism, insurgency, exodus, and the constitution -- 1. Law and terror in the age of constitution-making / Ranabir Samaddar -- 2. The Gandhian conception of the constitution / Narendra Chapalgaonkar -- 3. On the fringe : the tribal laws / Partha S. Ghosh -- 4. Law, rights, and public policy / Andrea Monti and Raymond Wacks -- Part II : Gendered habitations of precarity -- 5. The trajectories of work, sexuality and citizenship : the rights of the transgender in India / Skylab Sahu -- 6. 'Vimla to Pagal Hai!' [Vimla is a lunatic!] / Rani Dhavan Shankardass -- 7. Legitimating love : Tis Hazari and the judicial process / Perveez Mody -- 8. A legal framework to prevent trafficking of women and young girls during disasters in India / Manjula Batra -- 9. Victims, whores, and wives : migrant women and the law / Ratna Kapur -- Part III : Property, dispossessions, and spatial justice -- 10. 'Bargaining', gender equality and legal change : the case of India's inheritance laws / Bina Agarwal -- 11. Production of space in urban India : legal and policy challenges to land assembly / Varun Panickar -- 12. Rural civilities : caste, gender, and public life in Kerala / Sharika Thiranagama -- 13. The new technologies and the constitution of 'theft' / Nalini Rajan -- 14. The Geographical Indications Act : place matters / Anu Kapur.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023339705
ISBN9781032269276 hardcover
ISBN1032269278 hardcover
ISBNelectronic publication
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book
ISBN9781032468464
ISBN1032468467
Stock numberLibrary of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

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