Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia

by Anderson, Michael R.; Guha, Sumit

• ISBN13: 9780195653120
• ISBN10: 0195653122
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-25
• Publisher: School of Oriental and African Studies

Summary

This volume explores the relations between custom, law, and social change. International contributors discuss past beliefs and practices, as well as present day controversies, focusing particularly on the moral justification of religious laws and current social problems in India and Sri Lanka.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction

Wrongs and Rights in the Maratha Country: Antiquity, Custom and Power in Eighteenth-century India

Civil Authority and Due Process: Colonial Criminal Justice in the Banaras Zamindari, 1781-1795

Sansiahs and the State: the Changing Nature of 'Crime' and 'Justice' in Nineteenth-century British India

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman? Families and Legal Change in Nineteenth-century Malabar

Do Changing Conceptions of Gender Justice Have a Place in Indian Women's Lives? A Study of Some Aspects of Christian Personal Laws

Sex and Punishment Among Mill-Workers in Early-twentieth-century Bombay

Elusive Social Justice, Distant Human Rights: Untouchable Women's Struggles and Dilemmas in Changing India

The Ethics of Struggle: Changing Political Perceptions Among Secondary School Students in a Southern Sri Lanka

Sectarianism and Human Rights Discourse: The Politics of Human Rights in the Post-Colonial Punjab

From Subject to Citizen: Towards a History of the Indian Civil Rights Movement

Index

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