Regimes of Legality: Ethnography of Criminal Cases in South Asia
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
0199456747, 9780199456741
Length
xviii+333p., 23cm.
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An anthropological study on judicial practices in South Asia, this volume takes criminal cases as frameworks to examine power dynamics within a legal setting. Case studies in this book analyse a set of state and non-state institutions and the practices of people associated with them. The essays delve into the underlying tension in institutional contexts between legal practitioners such as police officers, lawyers, and judges who orient their claims towards ...
