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Acknowledgements

Introduction : The sites and possibilities of interdisciplinary law / Kalpana Kannabiran

Part I Questions of Justice : environment, ecology, and disaster

1. Law, agro-ecology and colonialism in Mid-Gangetic India, 1770s-1910s / Nitin Sinha

2. Historical wrongs and forest rights : nascent jurisprudence on FRA and participatory evidence making / Shomona Khannna

3. Feminist dimension of biodiversity challenges / Niharika Bahl

4. An overview of the law governing hazardous substances in the Post-Bhopal era / T. R. Subramanya

5. Disability, disaster and the law : legislating disability inclusive disaster risk reduction / Deepa Sonpal

Part II Families in law : property, custom, and violence

6. Family, work and matrimonial property : implications for women and children / Kamala Sankaran

7. Sex-selective abortion and reproductive rights : a syncretic feminist approach / Bijayalaxmi Nanda

8. Adjudicating domestic violence in the courts / Shalu Nigam

9. Feminist activism, violence in the family, and law reform in India : a three decadal history / Kalpana Kannabiran

10. Saving custom or promoting incest? Post-independence marriage law and Dravidian marriage practices / Patricia Uberoi

Part III. Plural domains of law and governance

11. Conflict resolution in tribal societies of Northeast India : legal pluralism and Indian democracy / Nandita Haksar

12. Forums for conflict resolution in the Jaintia Tribal community over land resources / Rikil Chyrmang

13. Pathalgadi movement and conflicting ideologies of tribal village governance / Anjana Singh.

Sociological jurisprudence > India.

Law > India.