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South Asia in the Social Sciences: Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India
Anuj Bhuwania
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Description for South Asia in the Social Sciences: Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India
hardcover. This book studies the political role that public interest litigation has come to play in contemporary India. Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; LAQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Based on empirical research, this book shows how public interest litigation (PIL) grants the appellate courts enormous flexibility in procedure, allowing them to manoeuvre themselves into positions of overweening authority. While PIL cases are usually politically analysed solely in terms of their effects, whether beneficial or disastrous, this book locates the political challenges that PIL poses in its very process, arguing that its fundamentally protean nature stems from its mimicry of ideas of popular justice. It examines PIL as part of a larger trend towards legal informalism in post-Emergency India. Casting a critical eye over these institutional reforms that aimed ... Read more
Based on empirical research, this book shows how public interest litigation (PIL) grants the appellate courts enormous flexibility in procedure, allowing them to manoeuvre themselves into positions of overweening authority. While PIL cases are usually politically analysed solely in terms of their effects, whether beneficial or disastrous, this book locates the political challenges that PIL poses in its very process, arguing that its fundamentally protean nature stems from its mimicry of ideas of popular justice. It examines PIL as part of a larger trend towards legal informalism in post-Emergency India. Casting a critical eye over these institutional reforms that aimed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
South Asia in the Social Sciences
Condition
New
Number of Pages
166
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107147454
SKU
V9781107147454
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About Anuj Bhuwania
Anuj Bhuwania teaches at the Department of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi. His research interests are legal anthropology, anthropology of media, public law, post-colonial Indian politics, anthropology of human rights and criminal justice and policing.
Reviews for South Asia in the Social Sciences: Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India
'Courting the People is a book that needed to be written and one that should be widely read and debated. It will form part of any reading list on PIL in India, mainly because by naming, calling out, and documenting the public secrets of PIL, the book provides an important counter to the mostly hagiographic narratives on PIL and its ... Read more