Law, Justice and Human Rights in India : Short Reflections / Kalpana Kannabiran ; with a foreword by Anand Teltumbde.

By:

Kannabirān, Kalpana [author.]

Publisher: Hyderabad, Telangana, India : Orient BlackSwan, 2021Description: xxv, 387 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789354421105
9354421105

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

342.54085 KAN 23

LOC classification:

KNS2095 .K36 2021

Contents:

Foreword by Anand Teltumbde Introduction Part A—Understanding Discrimination ONE The Adivasi Experience 1. Adivasis and Gujarat 2002 2. The Burden of Criminal Neglect 3. Constitutional Conversations on Adivasi Rights 4. Without Land or Recourse TWO Blocked by Caste 5. Caste, the Academy and Dalit Women 6. Reservation and the Creamy Layer 7. Chunduru: On the Road to Justice 8. Roadmap for Reservation in Higher Education 9. Atrocities That No Longer Shock 10. Scope of Constitutional Morality 11. The Annihilation by Caste 12. Post-truths about Rohith Vemula THREE Disability Rights 13. Creating Enabling Environments 14. The Rights of Prisoners with Disabilities 15. Between the Divine and the Diabolical: Disability Rights over the Edge 16. Right to Privacy as Right to Life FOUR Minority Rights 17. An Apology to Mohammed Akhlaq 18. Kashmir and Una Define a New Practice of Politics 19. Babri Masjid Revisited 20. We Shall Not Be Silenced, nor Shall We Ever Forget FIVE Queer Rights 21. From ‘Perversion’ to Right to Life with Dignity 22. It’s Time to Scrap the Eunuchs Act SIX Women’s Rights 23. Rethinking the Law on Sexual Assault 24. Girl Punk, Interrupted 25. A Moment of Triumph for Women 26. Lessons from Badaun and Beyond 27. Article 17 is at the Heart of the Matter 28. Graded Patriarchies and Graded Inequality: Sabarimala 29. Judicial Opacity on Women’s Entry in Sabarimala Part B—Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Law SEVEN Civil Liberties 30. On Human Rights and Radical Evil 31. The Abolition of the Death Penalty 32. Something is Rotten in the States of … 33. And We Must Say It Again … Again Yet Again 34. Democratic Futures in Peril: An Assault on the Right to Privacy 35. Constitutional Justice is Non-negotiable EIGHT Free Speech 36. Free Speech is the Cornerstone of Constitution 37. ‘Hard Words Break No Bones’: Sedition, Free Speech, Academic Freedoms and Sovereignty in India 38. Mourning the Loss of Gauri Lankesh 39. Taking Aim at the Messenger 40. No Rollback on the Right to Dissent 41. Kancha Ilaiah: For Lives Lived in Labour 42. ‘They Cannot Stop Me from Teaching Marx and Ambedkar’: A Conversation with K. Satyanarayana 43. Hate Speech and the Barbarity of ‘False Equivalence’ NINE Professions and Civil Rights 44. Of Lawyers and the Law 45. Lawyer, Judge and Aam Aadmi 46. When Professional Associations Start Promoting Narrow Sectarian Agendas TEN Judges are Equal Citizens 47. Parables of Justice and Women Therein 48. Privacy, Sequestered Courts and the Place of Dissent 49. The Court is not above the Constitution 50. Redeeming the Constitution 51. Juridical Viralities, Courts and the Question of Justice ELEVEN ‘Freedom to Be’ in Universities 52. Education, Campuses and Violence 53. Disrupting Caste in Class 54. A Call to Resurrect the Constitution, or What is a University? 55. Urgent Notes from a University in Crisis 56. The University is not a Feudal Village 57. A Year after Rohith Vemula’s Death … 58. ‘I Don’t See What is Happening within Universities as Separate from What is Happening in the Political Arena’ TWELVE Human Rights Cultures 59. Development, Justice and the Constitution 60. Regulating Cultures through Food Policing 61. Paresh Rawal Must Be Asked to Forfeit His Seat THIRTEEN Futures of Citizenship 62. Of Law, Resurrection and a Future 63. Constitution, Hostile Environments and ‘Atrocious’ Interpretation: A Sign of Our Times 64. Through the Clouds of Protest, Sightings of Hope 65. Retrieving the Idea of Citizenship 66. Safoora Zargar and the Search for India’s Soul 67. Governance by Annihilation and by Hate

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Foreword by Anand Teltumbde
Introduction
Part A—Understanding Discrimination
ONE The Adivasi Experience
1. Adivasis and Gujarat 2002
2. The Burden of Criminal Neglect
3. Constitutional Conversations on Adivasi Rights
4. Without Land or Recourse

TWO Blocked by Caste
5. Caste, the Academy and Dalit Women
6. Reservation and the Creamy Layer
7. Chunduru: On the Road to Justice
8. Roadmap for Reservation in Higher Education
9. Atrocities That No Longer Shock
10. Scope of Constitutional Morality
11. The Annihilation by Caste
12. Post-truths about Rohith Vemula

THREE Disability Rights
13. Creating Enabling Environments
14. The Rights of Prisoners with Disabilities
15. Between the Divine and the Diabolical: Disability Rights over the Edge
16. Right to Privacy as Right to Life

FOUR Minority Rights
17. An Apology to Mohammed Akhlaq
18. Kashmir and Una Define a New Practice of Politics
19. Babri Masjid Revisited
20. We Shall Not Be Silenced, nor Shall We Ever Forget

FIVE Queer Rights
21. From ‘Perversion’ to Right to Life with Dignity
22. It’s Time to Scrap the Eunuchs Act

SIX Women’s Rights
23. Rethinking the Law on Sexual Assault
24. Girl Punk, Interrupted
25. A Moment of Triumph for Women
26. Lessons from Badaun and Beyond
27. Article 17 is at the Heart of the Matter
28. Graded Patriarchies and Graded Inequality: Sabarimala
29. Judicial Opacity on Women’s Entry in Sabarimala

Part B—Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Law
SEVEN Civil Liberties
30. On Human Rights and Radical Evil
31. The Abolition of the Death Penalty
32. Something is Rotten in the States of …
33. And We Must Say It Again … Again Yet Again
34. Democratic Futures in Peril: An Assault on the Right to Privacy
35. Constitutional Justice is Non-negotiable

EIGHT Free Speech
36. Free Speech is the Cornerstone of Constitution
37. ‘Hard Words Break No Bones’: Sedition, Free Speech, Academic Freedoms and Sovereignty in India
38. Mourning the Loss of Gauri Lankesh
39. Taking Aim at the Messenger
40. No Rollback on the Right to Dissent
41. Kancha Ilaiah: For Lives Lived in Labour
42. ‘They Cannot Stop Me from Teaching Marx and Ambedkar’: A Conversation with K. Satyanarayana
43. Hate Speech and the Barbarity of ‘False Equivalence’

NINE Professions and Civil Rights
44. Of Lawyers and the Law
45. Lawyer, Judge and Aam Aadmi
46. When Professional Associations Start Promoting Narrow Sectarian Agendas

TEN Judges are Equal Citizens
47. Parables of Justice and Women Therein
48. Privacy, Sequestered Courts and the Place of Dissent
49. The Court is not above the Constitution
50. Redeeming the Constitution
51. Juridical Viralities, Courts and the Question of Justice

ELEVEN ‘Freedom to Be’ in Universities
52. Education, Campuses and Violence
53. Disrupting Caste in Class
54. A Call to Resurrect the Constitution, or What is a University?
55. Urgent Notes from a University in Crisis
56. The University is not a Feudal Village
57. A Year after Rohith Vemula’s Death …
58. ‘I Don’t See What is Happening within Universities as Separate from What is Happening in the Political Arena’

TWELVE Human Rights Cultures
59. Development, Justice and the Constitution
60. Regulating Cultures through Food Policing
61. Paresh Rawal Must Be Asked to Forfeit His Seat

THIRTEEN Futures of Citizenship
62. Of Law, Resurrection and a Future
63. Constitution, Hostile Environments and ‘Atrocious’ Interpretation: A Sign of Our Times
64. Through the Clouds of Protest, Sightings of Hope
65. Retrieving the Idea of Citizenship
66. Safoora Zargar and the Search for India’s Soul
67. Governance by Annihilation and by Hate

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