Law and Society in Modern India

Abstract

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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