Law and social transformation

Contents:
Part I-General-General : theory, alternatives and the constitution;

1. Law and social transformation : a theoretical discussion;
2. Historical and sociological discourses on law's role in social transformation
3. Alternatives to legal strategy : Gandhism, Sarvodaya, Marxism and Naxalism;
4. Constitution's orientation and response to social transformation;

Part II- Multiculturalism and social transformation : religion, language, region and ethnicity;

5. Religion and law;
6. Language and law : towards equality in language rights?;
7. Language rights in education;
8. People's language as the language of courts : perspectives, problems and the needed strategies;
9. Regionalism, law and social transformation;
10. Ethnic pluralism, tribal development and social transformation : a focus on security, self-government and social justice;

Part III- Social transformation by empowerment : empowering the backward classes, women and children;

11. Caste, law and empowerment of the backward classes;
12. Constitutional policy and development towards gender justice;
13. Crimes against women and law's response thereto;
14. Law, child welfare and social transformation;

Part IV- Modernisation and social transformation : concept, family law, economic reforms, justice delivery system and participative democracy;

15. Modernisation and law;
16. Family law, modernisation and social transformation;
17. Economic development, law and social transformation : focus on agriculture, industry, and environment;
18. Reforms in the justice delivery system, modernisation and law;
19. Role of democracy, panchayati raj and NGOs in social transformation through law;
20. Conclusions.