Contents:
List of contributors;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction: The Sites and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Law
PART I
Questions of Justice: Environment, Ecology, and Disaster;
1 Law, Agro-Ecology and Colonialism in Mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s;
2 Historical Wrongs and Forest Rights: Nascent Jurisprudence on FRA and Participatory Evidence Making;
3 Feminist Dimension of Biodiversity Challenges;
4 An Overview of the Law Governing Hazardous Substances in the Post-Bhopal Era;
5 Disability, Disaster and the Law: Legislating Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction;
PART II;
Families in Law: Property, Custom, and Violence;
6 Family, Work and Matrimonial Property: Implications for Women and Children;
7 Sex-selective Abortion and Reproductive Rights: A Syncretic Feminist Approach;
8 Adjudicating Domestic Violence in the Courts;
9 Feminist Activism, Violence in the Family, and Law Reform in India: A Three Decadal History;
10 Saving Custom or Promoting Incest? Post-Independence Marriage Law and Dravidian Marriage Practices;
PART III;
Plural Domains of Law and Governance;
11 Conflict Resolution in Tribal Societies of Northeast India: Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy;
12 Forums for Conflict Resolution in the Jaintia Tribal Community over Land Resources;
13 Pathalgadi Movement and Conflicting Ideologies of Tribal Village Governance.