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Iterations of Law : Legal Histories From India / edited by Aparna Balachandran, Rashmi Pant, Bhavani Raman.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 302 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199477791 (hardback)
  • 0199477795 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.9 BAL
LOC classification:
  • KNS120 .T45 2018
Contents:
Content: Introduction: Iterations of law : legal history from India / Aparna Balachandran, Bhavani Raman, and Rashmi Pant The life of law in modern India : a present history of the Martha court / Janaki Nair Speaking in multiple registers : property and the narrative of care / Rashmi Pant Violence and the language of law / Neeladri Bhattacharya Law in times of counter-insurgency / Bhavani Raman Petition town : law, custom, and urban space in colonial South India / Aparna Balachandran 'To mount or not to mount?' : court records and law making in early modern Rajasthan / Nandita Sahai Power, petitions, and the 'povo' in early English Bombay / Philip J. Stern Of truth and taxes : a material history of early stamp't paper / Shrimoyee Ghosh Public finance and personal law in late colonial India / Eleanor Newbigin.
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BOOKs NLS General Stacks 340.9 BAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) HB Available 36165

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index.

Content:
Introduction: Iterations of law : legal history from India / Aparna Balachandran, Bhavani Raman, and Rashmi Pant
The life of law in modern India : a present history of the Martha court / Janaki Nair
Speaking in multiple registers : property and the narrative of care / Rashmi Pant
Violence and the language of law / Neeladri Bhattacharya
Law in times of counter-insurgency / Bhavani Raman
Petition town : law, custom, and urban space in colonial South India / Aparna Balachandran
'To mount or not to mount?' : court records and law making in early modern Rajasthan / Nandita Sahai
Power, petitions, and the 'povo' in early English Bombay / Philip J. Stern
Of truth and taxes : a material history of early stamp't paper / Shrimoyee Ghosh
Public finance and personal law in late colonial India / Eleanor Newbigin.