Courting the people : public interest litigation and political society in post-emergency India / Anuj Bhuwania.

By:

Bhuwania, Anuj [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: South Asia in the social sciencesPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: ix, 157 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781107147454 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

344.54 BHU 23 010524

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Table of contents

Contents:

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.

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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New Delhi	344.54 BHU 010524 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	In transit from Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore to Indian Institute for Human Settlements, New Delhi since 28/11/2019		010524

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

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

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