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Legal Pluralism and Governance in South Asia and Diasporas book cover

1st Edition

Legal Pluralism and Governance in South Asia and Diasporas

Edited By Livia Holden Copyright 2015
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

Legal Pluralism and Governance in South Asia and the Diasporas contributes to the already heated debate about legal pluralism and the ontology of law by shifting the attention toward the relationship between what is treated as law and its impact on governance at the fora of dispute resolution. This book addresses sensitive issues such as gender rights and alternative dispute resolution in... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Religious personal laws as non-state laws: implications for gender justice  3. Legal monism and white violence in South Asia  4. Governance and governability in South Asian family laws and in diaspora  5. In pursuit of the pagans: Muslim law in the English context  6. The “women’s court” in India: an alternative dispute resolution body for women in distress  7. Daughters’ inheritance, legal pluralism, and governance in Pakistan  8. Harmony ideology revisited: spatial geographies of hegemony and disputing strategies amongst the Santal  9. Legal pluralism in discourse: justice, politics and marginality in rural Rajasthan, India

Biography

Livia Holden (Ma and MPhil – Paris 10, PhD – SOAS University of London) is an anthropologist of law with long-term experience of fieldwork in India and in Pakistan. She is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Chair of the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the Karakoram International University in Gilgit Baltistan.

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