Iterations of Law Legal Histories from India

by Balachandran, Aparna; Pant, Rashmi; Raman, Bhavani

• ISBN13: 9780199477791
• ISBN10: 0199477795
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-01-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Aparna Balachandran, Teacher, Department of History, University of Delhi, India.,Rashmi Pant, Fellow, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi,Bhavani Raman, Teacher, Department of History, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Aparna Balachandran teaches at the Department of History, University of Delhi, India. She has contributed to journals on religious identity and history of communities as well as on colonial law.

Rashmi Pant is Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and teaches at the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India. She has contributed articles to journals on the history of caste formation in colonial India.

Bhavani Raman teaches at the Department of History, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Document Raj: Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India (2012).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction Iterations of Law: Legal History from India - Aparna Balachandran, Rashmi Pant, and Bhavani Raman
1. The Life of Law in Modern India: A Present History of the Matha Court - Janaki Nair
2. Speaking in Multiple Registers: Property and the Narrative of Care - Rashmi Pant
3. Violence and the Languages of Law - Neeladri Bhattacharya
4. Law in Times of Counterinsurgency - Bhavani Raman
5. Petition Town: Law, Custom, and Urban Space in Early Colonial South India - Aparna Balachandran
6. 'To Mount or Not to Mount?' Court Records and Law-Making in Early Modern Rajasthan - Nandita Sahai
7. Power, Petitions, and the 'Povo' in Early English Bombay- Philip Stern
8. Of Truth and Taxes: A Material History of Early Stamp't Paper- Shrimoyee Ghosh
9. Public Finance and Personal Law in Late-Colonial India- Eleanor Newbigin
Bibliography
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index