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1 online resource (xix, 495 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
British Occupation of India (India : 1765-1947) |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- India.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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India. |
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Rule of law -- India -- History.
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Rule of law. |
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History. |
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Crime -- India -- History.
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Crime. |
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Criminology -- India -- History.
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Criminology. |
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Criminal law -- India.
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Criminal law. |
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Human rights -- India.
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Human rights. |
| Chronological Term |
1765-1947 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Criminal law. |
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Human rights. |
| Added Author |
Kannabirān, Kalpana.
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Singh, Ranbir.
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| Added Title |
Challenging the rules of law |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Challenging the rule(s) of law. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2008 9780761936657 (DLC) 2008031276 (OCoLC)236525735 |
| ISBN |
9788132100270 (electronic book) |
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8132100271 (electronic book) |
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9780761936657 |
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0761936653 |
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