By Gunnel Cederlöf,Sanjukta Das Gupta
ISBN-10: 1138228443
ISBN-13: 9781138228443
This quantity investigates how, the place and while topics and electorate come into being, assert themselves and workout subjecthood or citizenship within the formation of recent India. It argues for the significance of realizing felony perform – how rights are played in dispute and negotiation – from the parliament and courts to highway corners and box websites. The essays within the booklet discover subject matters corresponding to land legislation and rights, courtroom method, freedom of speech, intercourse staff’ mobilisation, refugee prestige, adivasi humans and non-state actors, and produce jointly experiences from throughout north India, spanning from early colonial to modern instances.
Representing scholarship in historical past, anthropology and political technology that attracts on wide-ranging box and archival study, the amount will immensely profit students, scholars and researchers of improvement, historical past, political technological know-how, sociology, anthropology, legislation and public policy.
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