Changing concepts of rights & justice in south Asia / 
edited by Michael R. Anderson and Sumit Guha. 
 - xi, 288 pages ;  22 cm. 
 - SOAS studies on South Asia .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographic references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /  Wrongs and rights in the Maratha country : antiquity, custom and power in eighteenth-century India /  Civil authority and due process : colonial criminal justice in the Banaras Zamindari, 1781-1795 /  Sansiahs and the state : the changing nature of 'crime' and 'justice' in nineteenth-century British India /   A vindication of the rights of woman? families and legal change in nineteenth-century Malabar /  Do changing conceptions of gender justice have a place in Indian women's lives? a study of some aspects of christian personal laws /  Sex and punishment among mill-workers in early-twentieth-century Bombay /  Elusive social justice, distant human rights : untouchable women's struggles and dilemmas in changing India /  The ethics of struggle : changing political perceptions among secondary schools students in a Southern Sri Lanka /   Sectarianism and human rights discourse : the politics of human rights in the post-colonial punjab /  From subject to citizen : towards a history of the Indian civil rights movement /  Michael R. Anderson & Sumit Guha  Sumit Guha  Radhika Singha  Sandria Freitag  G. Arunima  Archna Parashar  Radha Kumar  R.S. Khare  Jani de Silva  Pritam Singh  Nilanjan Dutta 
<br/><br/> Contributed articles presented at conference. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195641205 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civil rights--History--South Asia--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KNC 572 .A8  / C43 1998