The uses of law in Indian studies; The emergence of the modern legal system: The displacement of traditional law in modern India; The aborted restoration of indigenous law in India; Panchayat justice: An Indian experiment in legal access - with Upendra Baxi; Indian law as an indigenous conceptual system; Legal conceptions of the social structure: Group membership and group preferences in India; Changing legalconceptions of caste; Pursuing equality in the land of hierarchy: Pursuing equality in the land of hierarchy: Assessment of India's policies of compensatory discrimination for historically disadvantaged groups; Missed opportunitites: The use and non-use of law favourable to untouchables and otherspecially vulnerable groups; Judges, Lawyers and social reform: Hinduism, secularism and the Indian judiciary; Symbolic activism: Judicial encounter with the contours of India's compensatory discrimination policy; New patterns of legal services in India