Challenging the rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India

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Challenging the rule(s) of law : colonialism, criminology and human rights in India

edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Ranbir Singh

Sage Pub., 2008

  • : india

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Challenging the rules of law

"That despicable specimen of humanity"

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Laws of metamorphosis : from nomad to offender / Meena Radhakrishna
  • Victims and villains : the construction of female criminality in colonial Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee
  • 'That despicable specimen of humanity' : policing of homosexuality in India / Arvind Narrain
  • Sexual assault and the law / Kalpana Kannabiran
  • Social exclusion and criminal law / S.R. Sankaran
  • Building a subaltern women's perspective / Jayshree P. Mangubhai and Aloysius Irudayam S.J.
  • Whose life is it anyway? : Adivasi communities and entitlements to life / Seema Misra
  • Preserving wellness and personhood : a psychosocial approach to the child / Shekhar P. Seshadri and Kaveri I. Haritas
  • Penal strategies and political resistance in colonial and independent India / Ujjwal Kumar Singh
  • Communities, gender and the border : a legal narrative on India's North East / Paula Banerjee
  • Parens Patriae : exercising patriarchal prerogative in post-partition India / Ritu Menon
  • Law and life in the state of nature : archiving stories from legal literacy / Abha Singhal Joshi
  • Revisiting impunity and criminality : of corruption, collusion, consequences and victims / Vijay K. Nagaraj
  • Khap Panchayats in Haryana : sites of legal pluralism / K.S. Sangwan
  • Crimes, passion and detachment : colonial foundations of rule of law / Ranabir Samaddar
  • Conspiracies of association : associational offences, associational freedoms and the rule of law / K.G. Kannabiran
  • Of strong medicine and weak stomachs : the resort to enhanced punishment in criminal law in India / Bikram Jeet Batra
  • The contexts of criminology : a brief restatement / Kalpana Kannabiran

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