State of Justice In India: Issues of Social Justice

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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