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020 _a9780195632057
040 _cCUS
082 _a349.54
_bGAL/L
100 _aGalanter, Marc
245 _aLaw and society modern india /
_cMarc Galanter
260 _aDelhi:
_bOUP,
_c1992.
300 _ac, 329 p.
_bPB
505 _a 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
942 _cWB16