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Law and Democracy in Contemporary India Constitution, Contact Zone, and Performing Rights /
This book analyses legal orders, actors and democracy in contemporary India, with a particular focus on the everyday contexts and dynamics of human rights, citizenship and socio-economic rights and laws. The contributions explore both 'institutionalization from above', where the judiciary...
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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing :
2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Human Rights Interventions,
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| Online Access: | Full-text access |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction; Tatsuya Yamamoto
- 2. Inventing Rights in the Indian Context; Kazuhiro Itakura
- 3. Who Appoints Judges? Judicial Independence and Democratization of the Judiciary in India; Tomoaki Ueda
- 4. Citizenship In-between: A Case Study of Tibetan Refugees in India; Tatsuya Yamamoto
- 5. Rethinking the Reservation System in Contemporary India: A Local Point of View; Kenta Funahashi
- 6. 'The Right to Know Is the Right to Live': The Right to Information Movement in India; Shinya Ishizaka
- 7. Protesting the AFSPA in the Indian Periphery: The Anti-Militarisation Movement in Northeast India; Makiko Kimura
- 8. Justice and Human Rights at the Grassroots Level: Judicial Empowerment in Dalit Activism; Maya Suzuki
- 9. The Right to Sacredness: Politics Surrounding Wind Power Development in the Thar Desert; Kodai Konishi. .