Courting the people :

Bhuwania, Anuj,

Courting the people : public interest litigation and political society in post-emergency India / Anuj Bhuwania. - ix, 157 pages ; 24 cm. - South Asia in the social sciences .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-154) and index.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Competing populisms: revisiting the origins of public interest litigation in India; 2. The case that felled a city: a public interest litigation with nine lives; 3. Public interest litigation as a slum demolition machine; 4. Good judges, bad judges: critical discourses on public interest litigation in India; Conclusion: the procedural is political; Index.

""Studies the politics of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in contemporary India"--Provided by publisher".

9781107147454 (hbk.) Rs495.00

2016013219


Public interest law--India.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.


India--Politics and government--21st century.

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