SAGE Publications, 2019. — 225 p. PPP (public-private partnership) is a buzzword, especially in growing economies like India where it takes a partnership between the government and a private entity to establish successful infrastructural projects. However, PPPs in India face many hurdles that lead to either long delays or surprisingly, sometimes early completion of PPP...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 265 p. This volume reflects a recent transformation of the concerns of social scientists regarding the legal history of South Asia. While, earlier, historians looked at the results rather than the performance of law, the concerns later shifted to unravelling the socioeconomic and political contexts that shaped law-making and its practice....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 240 p. — ISBN 978-0-8122-5146-3 In 2001, the newly liberalized Indian state launched one of the most ambitious development programs the country has ever seen, comparable in scale only to the massive railway- building enterprises of colonial India: economic corridors. To fll in the “infrastructure gap,” the Central Government started...
University of Pennsylvania, 2010. — 357 p. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century C.E., a śāstra of a new type on the topic of Śūdras was composed and circulated among Dharmaśāstrins. These śūdradharma texts were primarily concerned with the ritual life of Śūdras—the rites, sacraments, and forms of religious knowledge to which they were entitled in śruti and smrti. But...
Lancer's Books, 2013. — 137 p. The debate over the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), has been raging within affected states, armed forces, central and state police organisations, human rights groups, legal fraternity and the central leadership. There have been different views and opinions voiced based on strongly held beliefs. This monograph attempts to present some of...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 1084 p. The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts. Its birth, over six decades ago, signalled the arrival of the first major post-colonial constitution and the world's largest and arguably most daring democratic experiment. Apart from greater domestic focus on the Constitution and the institutional...
Princeton University Press, 1996. — 189 p. Foreword Acknowledgements The command of language and the language of command Law and the colonial state in India The transformation of objects in artifacts, antiquities and art in the XIX century India Cloth, clothes and colonialism. India in the XIX century
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. 1905. — 236 p. This book concludes the labours of my free years Professorship. It embraces a history of the Ligislative Councils and of the judicial institutions which have been established in this country by the English; and an account is added of the existing Courts and Councils which make and administer the laws now in force in British India.
Nagpur: Printed by Ranade D.G. 1934. — 228 p. Reported in: Sind Law Reporter. Criminal Law Journal. All India Reports. To 152 Indian Cases. Criminal Cases.
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence provides an account of various theories of ownership ( svatva ) and inheritance ( dāya ) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmaśāstra). It examines the evolution of different juridical models of inheritance - in which families held property in trusts or in tenancies-in-common -...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence provides an account of various theories of ownership ( svatva ) and inheritance ( dāya ) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmaśāstra). It examines the evolution of different juridical models of inheritance - in which families held property in trusts or in tenancies-in-common -...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 312 p. This work seeks to determine the roles played by the paramount judiciary in the Indian polity between 1937 and 1964. The discussion starts with an examination of the Federal Court, the establishment of which in 1937 brought into existence Indias first central judicial institution. After a consideration of events leading to the creation of...
Routledge, 2019. — 219 p. This book presents an ethnography of dispute processing by non-state forums and actors in rural India. As such it sheds light on a much neglected and contested topic. Arising in the context of recent legal and political debates that question the legitimacy of non-state actors engaged in dispute processing, the book explores the nature, form, and...
Routledge, 2022. — 364 p. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the functioning and challenges of the legal aid system in India. The legal aid system was set up to promote the interests of the economically weaker sections of society that did not have equitable access to judicial systems. However, the system has been largely unsuccessful in delivering justice. Drawing on...
Madras: Higginbotham and Co. 1881. — 660 p. This edition has been thoroughly revised and re-considered by myself with reference to all the recent cases, English and Indian. In on respect, however, it will be found to differ from its predecessors. The names of the Indian Cases have been inserted, with citations from the contemporaneous reports, and a table of all cases quoted has...
Madras: Higginbotham and Co. 1878. — 634 p. Whereas it is expedient to provide a General Penal Code for British India; it is enacted as follows: This Act shall be called The Indian Penal Code, and shall take effect on and from the 1st day of May, 1861, throughout the whole of the Territories which are or may become vested in Her Majesty by the Statute 21 and 22 Victoria,...
Madras: Higginbotham and Co. 1884. — 690 p. This edition has necessarily received considerable alteration, so as to adapt in to the Criminal Procedure Code of 1882. The Commentary has been carefully examined, and it is believed that all the English in Indian Cases bearing upon the subject, up to the time of my final correction of the sheets, will be found either incorporated in...
Penguin Books, 2013. — 147 p. — ISBN: 9788184759532. An important book that offers a lucid introduction and analysis of some landmark judgements in India. They include Kesavananda Bharati, Shah Bano and Union Carbide cases among others.
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd., 2009. — 229 p. Imperial Miasma Th eory and the Construction of Unequal Colonial Identities Imagery and Law in the Creation of Identities Scientifi c Racism and the Constitution of Diff erence Th e ‘Ethnic’ as a Component of the ‘Criminal’ Class Imposing Colonial Legal Identities in India Constructing the Sansi as a ‘Criminal’ Class Imperial...
Springer, 2022. — 277 p. This 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...
Series: Oxford India Paperbacks Publisher: OUP India Year: 2000 ISBN: 0195653114, 9780195653113 Pages: 372 This volume deals with law-making as a cultural enterprise in which the colonial state had to draw upon existing normative codes of rank, status and gender, and re-order them to a new and more exclusive definition of the state's sovereign right. Abbreviations From Faujdari...
Thomson Reuters, 2021. — 1928 p. It has required someone out of the ordinary to undertake such a project as the Law, Practice and Procedure of Arbitration in India. It is a subject with a lengthy history; one of many, many things I have learned from my privileged early access to the manuscript is that dispute resolution methods akin to arbitration in the Indian subcontinent go...
Routledge, 2023. — 162 p. This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their larger struggle for legal rights and dignity but also their personal hardships. It situates the issues and concerns of the Indian transgender community within a global context to explore the extent of social...
Three Essays Collective, 2014. — 216 p. Kafkaland explores the grisly underbelly of counterterrorism, where prejudice and lawlessness are the standard operating codes. From Mumbai to Bangalore, to Delhi to Madhya Pradesh, it examines some of the most prominent terror cases to show that the hallmark of terror investigations is not simply a casual subversion of norms but cynical...
Central Law Publications, 2011. — 484 p. A scholarly work on Hindu Law by our learned author, Dr. B.K. Sharma, providing a comprehensive coverage and in-depth analysis of the major acts pertaining to Hindu Law, such as Hindu Marriage Act, 1955; Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956; Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 and Hindu Succession Act, 1956. This revised...
SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2022. — 322 p. — ISBN 978-93-5479-009-6. Federalism in India offers a comprehensive neo-institutional analysis of the Indian federal system with a global comparative perspective. Beginning as a variant of the Commonwealth parliamentary federal model, India has adopted some unique features of its own as well as charted a course that, in some respects,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 282 p. A pioneering work in a highly topical subject, Chaff and Grain by Vivek Sood delves into the malfunctions of the criminal justice system in India. The Supreme Court has gone to the extent of saying that in our criminal justice system the judge presiding over a trial decides on the basis of his sixth sense as to what must have happened...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 265 p. This book analyses religious law and local women's rights in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the legal relationship between British government state and Indian colonial society.
Москва: Издательство Московского университета, 1982. — 192 с. Предисловие. К общей характеристике индусского права: историческая преемственность и границы применения. Границы действия индусского права. Развитие источников индусского права. Варново - кастовое социальное деление в индусском праве. Происхождение права в Древней Индии. Индусское право в колониальной Индии....
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