Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism : Ecology, Families, Governance (Paperback)

Introduction: The Sites and Possibilities of Interdisciplinary Law PART I Questions of Justice: Environment, Ecology, and Disaster 1 Law, Agro-Ecology and Colonialism in Mid-Gangetic India, 1770s?1910s 2 Historical Wrongs and Forest Rights: Nascent Jurisprudence on FRA and Participatory Evidence Making 3 Feminist Dimension of Biodiversity Challenges 4 An Overview of the Law Governing Hazardous Substances in the Post-Bhopal Era 5 Disability, Disaster and the Law: Legislating Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction PART II Families in Law: Property, Custom, and Violence 6 Family, Work and Matrimonial Property: Implications for Women and Children 7 Sex-selective Abortion and Reproductive Rights: A Syncretic Feminist Approach 8 Adjudicating Domestic Violence in the Courts 9 Feminist Activism, Violence in the Family, and Law Reform in India: A Three Decadal History 10 Saving Custom or Promoting Incest? Post-Independence Marriage Law and Dravidian Marriage Practices PART III Plural Domains of Law and Governance 11 Conflict Resolution in Tribal Societies of Northeast India: Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy 12 Forums for Conflict Resolution in the Jaintia Tribal Community over Land Resources 13 Pathalgadi Movement and Conflicting Ideologies of Tribal Village Governance