The Crisis of the Indian Legal System. Alternatives in Development: Law
Author: Upendra Baxi
Publisher: Stranger Journalism
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0706913698
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Gender, Law and Social Transformation in India
Author: Ajailiu Niumai
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-12-07
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9811980209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides deep insights into the wide-ranging issues linked to gender, law, and social transformation in India. It focuses on women-centered laws as well as the violence of unequal and discriminatory social order. It emphasizes violence and the neutrality of laws that sustain the status quo and perpetuate the stereotypical notions related to women’s condition. Based on the first-hand experience of laws and their nuanced understanding, the essays highlight the rules associated with the private and the public domains. The chapters in the volume analyze various statutes and their enactment related to domestic violence, dowry crimes, sexual abuse at home as well as sexual harassment at the workplace, child marriages, education, property rights, trafficking, prostitution, ‘honor’ killings, and armed conflict. The book is essential to the academics and researchers in the disciplines of social sciences, gender studies, law, and the government and policy-makers for making meaningful interventions.
Sociology and Social Anthropology in India
Author: Yogesh Atal
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9788131720349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Indian Council of Social Science Research, the premier organization for social science research in India, conducts periodic surveys in the major disciplines of the social sciences to assess disciplinary developments as well as to identify gaps in research in these disciplines.
The Legal Right to Housing in India
Author: Anindita Mukherjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-12-12
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1108720277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the benefits of seeking legal recognition for the right to housing, within the Indian legal context.
Judicial Review
Author: Salman Khurshid
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 1108883478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn India, judicial review is not a static phenomenon. It has ensured that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and in situations when a law impinges on the rights and the liberties of citizens, it can be pruned or made void. This is a collection of scholarly essays demonstrating the different facets of judicial review based on the vast area of comparative constitutional law. Importantly, it honours the body of work of Upendra Baxi, legal scholar and author, whose contributions have shaped our understanding of legal jurisprudence and expanded the scope of social transformation in India. This volume recognizes his role as an Indian jurist. Various constitutional law experts come together to reflect on his expositions on the role of the apex court, judicial activism, accountability of judiciary, laws on surrogacy and adultery and so on.
Law, History, Colonialism
Author: Diane Elizabeth Kirkby
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780719060663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work brings together the disciplines of law, history and post-colonial studies in an exploration of imperialism. In essays, from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, it offers perspectives on the length and breadth of empire.
Suspects’ Rights in India
Author: Prejal Shah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1000451801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the procedural, cultural, and institutional framework of custodial interrogation in India. It explores theoretical and practical perspectives on custodial interrogation practices in India which have been in urgent need for reform and critiques the systemic failure on the part of the police in India to implement suspects’ rights uniformly. This volume, — Analyses the Indian framework of custodial interrogation to identify its fundamental flaws, and emphasises on the need for having a lawyer present during custodial interrogation; — Demonstrates significant evidence on state of suspects’ rights in India through comparative law methodologies with a focus on common law scholarship and jurisprudence, more particularly England and Wales, and supplemented by vital empirical research through key interviews with related institutional parties; — Discusses emerging, seminal jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on applications of the right to fair trial at the custodial interrogation stage, especially shedding light on modern applications of the right to legal assistance in England and Wales, and radical Strasbourg-inspired reforms in other European jurisdictions; — Highlights the right to legal assistance as one of the viable solutions to break the culture of police lawlessness at this critical stage of the criminal process. An invigorating study, this book is aimed at enriching data and hypothesis for academics, policy makers, civil society organizations, and students working in the area of law and legal studies, police and policing, citizenship, and political science.
Indian Muslim Women’s Movement
Author: Zakia Soman, Dr. Noorjehan Safia Niaz
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2020-07-29
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 1649199872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays and articles captures the beginning of the Muslim women’s movement in India in the last two decades. Written at different points during the journey, these pieces provide a glimpse into the collective tumultuous journey of women demanding reform in Muslim family law in India and for equal citizenship without discrimination. This journey was undertaken by ordinary women under their own leadership. This collection highlights the challenges faced by women. It also celebrates successes such as the organization of women into groups, abolition of triple talaq and women’s entry into the mazar of Haji Ali Dargah. This book is a collection of articles written by authors, individually and jointly in various newspapers, magazines, journals and other publications. It challenges the misogynist regressive norms for women in family set by patriarchal religious groups. It calls for state accountability in providing safety, security and equality to Muslim citizens. Based on experiences and insights from grounded struggle of ordinary women, these essays give hope and provide strength in addressing discrimination through shared vision and collective democratic action. It calls out the failure of conservative religious leadership as well as elected representatives in providing an enabling environment to the community and particularly, women. It calls out certain feminists for their dual standards and for unsuccessful attempts to weaken the movement for reform in family law led by ordinary Muslim women.
Divorce and Democracy
Author: Saumya Saxena
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-25
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1108498345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on author's thesis (doctoral -- University of Cambridge, 2017) issued under title: Politics of personal law in post-independence India c.1946-2007.
Women’s Shariah Court-Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice
Author: Dr. Noorjehan Safia Niaz
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: 2016-08-03
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1945688807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWould it be easy to imagine a court where justice is dispensed not by women and men wearing black flowing gowns but by ordinarily dressed, uneducated women? Muslim women living in slum communities of Mumbai took upon themselves the job of providing legal aid to other distressed women. Need for justice is as crucial as other needs, especially for women who face marginalization on a large scale. This book looks closely at the genesis of these groups, their history, their interventions, their motivations and their contributions to women’s movement. The book suggests recommendations for strengthening alternative dispute resolution forums where justice will be dispensed not by learned lawyers but by ordinarily dressed unlettered women. These women, through their innate sense of justice reaches out passionately towards other equally battered women and together they journey towards a life of dignity.
