Iterations of law : legal histories from India / edited by Aparna Balachandran, Rashmi Pant, Bhavani Raman.
Thinking Through Law: South Asian Histories and the Legal Archive (Conference) (2013 : New Delhi, India); Balachandran, Aparna, 1974- editor.; Pant, Rashmi, editor.; Raman, Bhavani, editor.; Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, sponsoring body.; Jawaharlal Nehru University. Centre for Historical Studies, organizer.; University of Delhi. History Department, organizer.; Princeton University. Department of History, organizer.
2018
KNS120 .T55 2013 (Mapit)
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Iterations of law : legal histories from India / edited by Aparna Balachandran, Rashmi Pant, Bhavani Raman.
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Edition
First edition.
Imprint
New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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viii, 302 pages ; 23 cm
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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 Matha Court / Janaki Nair
Speaking in multiple registers: property and the narrative of care / Rashmi Pant
Violence and the languaegs 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 law colonial India / Eleanor Newbigin.
The life of law in modern India: a present history of the Matha Court / Janaki Nair
Speaking in multiple registers: property and the narrative of care / Rashmi Pant
Violence and the languaegs 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 law colonial India / Eleanor Newbigin.
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"Papers presented at a Conference, Thinking Through Law: South Asian Histories and the Legal Archive, held on 25-7 April 2013 at New Delhi, India, under the auspices of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), New Delhi, jointly organized by the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Department of History, Delhi University and Department of History, Princeton University, USA." -- Acknowledgements.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index.
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KNS120 .T55 2013
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English
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9780199477791 (hardback)
0199477795 (hardback)
0199477795 (hardback)
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