State of justice in India. Vol. 2 : issues of social justice : Justice and law : the limits of the deliverables of law

This set presents a comprehensive analytical study of the state of social justice in India. The four volumes undertake theoretical and empirical inquiry into the various spheres of justice, collectively creating what can be termed a report card of the regime of social justice in the country. Authored by some of the finest ethnographers and analysts in the country, this work approaches the issue of justice in the broader context of post-colonial democracy, and look at the limits within which democracy permits justice, social justice in particular. How to go to your page ......Page 2 PART ONE: Social Justice and Enlightenment......Page 3 Contents......Page 7 List of Tables and Figures......Page 8 Series Acknowledgement......Page 9 Series Introduction: The State of Justice in India......Page 11 Introduction......Page 31 1 - Land Acquisition Act and Social Justice. A Study on Development and Displacement......Page 45 2 - Two Leaves and a Bud. Tea and Social Justice in Darjeeling......Page 76 3 - Deprivation and Social Injustice in a Rural Context. An Ethnographic Account......Page 97 4 - On the Wrong Side of the Fence. Embankment, People and Social Justice in the Sundarbans......Page 120 5 - Prescribed, Tolerated and Forbidden. Forms of Claim Making......Page 155 Consolidated Bibliography......Page 182 About the Editors and Contributors......Page 187 Index......Page 190 PART TWO: Justice and Law......Page 194 Contents......Page 198 Series Acknowledgement......Page 199 Series Introduction: The State of Justice in India......Page 201 Introduction......Page 220 1 - Justice in the Time of Transition. Select Indian Experiences......Page 230 2 - The Founding Moment. Social Justice in the Constitutional Mirror......Page 257 3 - Indexing Social Justice in India. A Story of Commissions, Reports andPopular Responses......Page 293 4 - Trivialising Justice. Reservation under Rule of Law......Page 326 5 - The Fallacy of Equality. ‘Anti-Citizens’, Sexual Justice and the Law in India......Page 403 Consolidated Bibliography......Page 444 About the Editors and Contributors......Page 452 Index......Page 454 PART THREE: Marginalities and Justice......Page 460 Contents......Page 464 List of Tables and Figures......Page 465 Series Acknowledgement......Page 466 Series Introduction: The State of Justice in India......Page 468 Introduction......Page 488 1 - Gulamiya Ab Hum Nahi Bajeibo. Peoples’ Expressions for Justice in Jehanabad......Page 496 2 - Ethnography of Social Justice in Dalit Pattis (Hamlets)of Rural UP......Page 525 3 - Rights and Social Justice for Tribal Population in India......Page 554 4 - AIDS, Marginality and Women......Page 591 5 - Towards Environmental Justice Movement in India? Spatiality, Hierarchies and Inequalities......Page 621 Consolidated Bibliography......Page 649 About the Editors and Contributors......Page 656 Index......Page 659 PART FOUR: Key Texts on Social Justice in India......Page 663 Contents......Page 667 Series Acknowledgement......Page 670 Series Introduction. The State of Justice in India......Page 672 SECTION I: Development and Discontent:The Question of Injustice......Page 693 Introduction......Page 694 1 - Ethnic Politics and Land Use Genesis of Conflicts in India’s North-East......Page 697 2 - Contexts and Constructions of Water Scarcity......Page 720 3 - Karnataka: Kudremukh Of Mining and Environment ......Page 743 4 - Report of Investigation into Nandigram Mass Killings......Page 753 5 - Eroded Lives Riverbank Erosion and Displacementof Women in West Bengal ......Page 770 SECTION II: Social Justice: The State and Its Perceptions......Page 795 Introduction......Page 796 6 - The Communal Violence (Prevention,Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, 2005......Page 801 7 - The National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 1999......Page 832 8 - The Right to Information Act, 2005......Page 850 9 - The National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy, 2007......Page 880 10 - The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005......Page 910 SECTION III: Justice: Law and Beyond......Page 921 Introduction......Page 922 11 - Illegality and Exclusion. Law in the Lives of Slum Dwellers......Page 925 12 - Illegal Coal Mining in Eastern India. Rethinking Legitimacy and Limits of Justice......Page 956 13 - Verdict on an HIV Case,Supreme Court of India ......Page 986 14 - An Indian Charter for Minority Rights ......Page 996 SECTION IV: Women and Marginality: An Issue of Gender Justice......Page 1035 Introduction......Page 1036 15 - Gender. Women and HIV......Page 1039 16 - National Policy for the Empowerment of Women (2001)......Page 1087 17 - Women, Trafficking and Statelessness in South Asia......Page 1104 SECTION V - Justice: Marginal Positions and Alternative Notions......Page 1127 18 - Voices from Folk School of Dalit Bahujan and Marginalised to Policy Makers ......Page 1131 19 - Social Assessment of HIV/AIDS among Tribal People in India......Page 1150 20 - Caste is Dead: Long Live Caste......Page 1171 21- Tehelka Debate. Beyond Caste......Page 1176 22 - Report from the Flaming Fields of Bihar. A CPI (ML) Document......Page 1181 SECTION VI: Freedom and Equality, Rights and Social Security: Building Blocks of Justice......Page 1195 Introduction......Page 1196 23 - Jungle Book. Tribal Forest Rights Recognised for First Time ......Page 1199 25 - Arguments, Protests, Strikes and Free Speech. The Career and Prospects of the Right to Strike in India......Page 1208 26 - Democracy and Right to Food......Page 1222 About the Editors and Contributors......Page 1247 Index......Page 1251 V. 1. Social Justice And Enlightenment : West Bengal -- V. 2. Justice And Law : The Limits Of The Deliverables Of Law -- V. 3. Marginalities And Justice -- V. 4. Key Texts On Social Justice In India. Series Editor, Ranabir Samaddar. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.