Law and Democracy in Contemporary India

Download or read book Law and Democracy in Contemporary India written by Tatsuya Yamamoto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses legal orders, actors and democracy in contemporary India, with a particular focus on the everyday contexts and dynamics of human rights, citizenship and socio-economic rights and laws. The contributions explore both ‘institutionalization from above’, where the judiciary and legislative body aim to govern people, and ‘institutionalization from below’, where the governed attempt to expand their substantive rights embedded within their everyday lives. This analysis identifies contact zones between the two directions, which act as spaces for democratic participation and negotiation. Such a perspective should be useful to both those who are interested in Indian politics, and anthropologists and sociologists working on dynamics of laws and rights.