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082			_223rd Ed _a340.1150954 MEN
100			_913299 _aMendelsohn, Oliver
245			_aLaw and Social Transformation in India / _cOliver Mendelsohn
250			_a1st Ed.
260			_aNew Delhi , India _bOxford University Press _c2014
300			_axxxii, 302p. : ill. ; 23cm
504			_aIt Includes preface, acknowledgements, introduction, about the author and index pages
521			_aDescription This collection of works-previously published in a variety of journals and books-explores 'the basic architecture' of law in India. It is mainly focused on modern and contemporary India but also looks at the historical roots and evolution of contemporary law and society in India. The collection has a particular focus on identifying and accounting for the distinctive character of litigation in India, including its previously narrow subject matter and also its frequently protracted quality. A major theme is the way in which the legal system introduced into India by the British has co-existed with patterns of authority and dispute settlement that have their origins outside the state. The book is essentially about legal change, both within the official legal system and within 'society'. So there is discussion on the emergence over the last twenty years of corporate law firms along the lines of the firms of New York, and also the persistence and reinvention of novel forms of dispute settlement among groups as diverse as the diamond traders of Mumbai and the dhobis or washer folk of rural Rajasthan. The changing character of authority in rural India is a major theme of the collection. Table of Contents 1. The Pathology of the Indian Legal System 2. How Indian Is Indian Law? 3. The Transformation of Authority in Rural India 4. The Question of the 'Harijan Atrocity' 5. From Colonial to Post-colonial Law in India 6. The Indian Legal Profession, the Courts, and Globalization 7. Life and Struggles in the Stone Quarries of India 8. The Supreme Court as the Most Trusted Public Institution in India 9. Law, Terror and the Indian Legal Order
650		0	_913332 _aSociological jurisprudence; India; Social change;
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