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The present book in two volumes is a compilation of what the British officials wrote about the history, geography, economy, society and cultural history of Manipur during the 19 century and the early part of the 20 century. The British-anthology about Manipur had been written by British colonial officials and military commanders. They are of enormous historiographical significance even today. Here and there, one can point out certain unintended aberrations from ...
Fossilised thoughts and ideas become fragile and brittle. The time has changed to keep aside the fossil - thoughts and generate new perspectives. This book triggers off the new vista and vision. Part I of the book takes on the new parameters of Indian constitutionalism that could lead to paradigm-shift. The fractured spots could be identified. The hyper-activism of the judiciary has garnered sufficient supporters and opponents. Yet it is a hard reality. Part II ...
The work on 'Law and Society' is a legal anthology on the contemporary issues that draw sufficient attention of the brain-trust of the day. Alternatives and creativejy approaches devised for understanding quite some of the high profile a wider profile of options. Intelligent human actions-social or legal orquasi-political-are the consequent human actions-Soncial or legal or quasi-political-are the consequence of sensible choice. The year 2001 literally is ...
Much water has flowed down the gulfs, bays and deep seas elsewhere since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 in the last century till the early 21st Century. Colonial borders have been redrawn, globalisation in both sense of the term has set in; yet the deepest concern for human causes and human rights remains unaffected by these alternations. The Humanitarian laws had the benchmark starting from the St. Petersburg Declaration, 1868 ...
The provocative book from the unconventional writer of eminence and standing is no longer a religious re-affirmation of the outworn ideas, as harboured by a vast majority of incorrigible; conservative defenders of the establishment faith - the proverbial YES MEN. The brief travel would take you to the problematics and possibilities of the ICC--the international criminal court on the dreaded armed forces special powers act, 1958 that burns Manipur, and the ...