Changing Concepts Of Rights And Justice In South Asia (soas Studies On South Asia)

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. Edited By Michael R. Anderson And Sumit Guha. Articles Presented At A Conference Held At The Nehru Memorial Museum And Library In New Delhi On 15-19 March 1994. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. There are few areas as beset with problems of evidence and interpretation as that of the study of conceptions of rights in past societies. 6. Archana Parashar: Do changing conceptions of gender justice have a place In Indian women's lives? a study of some aspects of Christian personal laws 2. Sumit Guha: Wrongs and rights in the Maratha country: antiquity, custom 4. Sandria Freitag: Sansiahs and the state: the changing nature of 'crime' 10. Pritam Singh: Sectarianism and human rights discourse: the politics of 8. R S. Khare: Elusive social justice, distant human rights: untouchable 9. Jani de Silva: The ethics of struggle: changing political perceptions 5. G. Arunima: A vindication of the rights of woman? families and legal 3. Radhika Singha: Civil authority and due process: colonial criminal 11. Nilanjan Dutta: From subject to citizen: towards a history of the 7. Radha Kumar: Sex and punishment among mill-workers in Among secondary school students in a Southern Sri Lanka 1. Michael R. Anderson & Sumit Guha: Introduction And 'justice' in Nineteenth-Century British India Women's struggles and dilemmas in changing India Justice in the Banaras Zamindari, 1781-1795