Contributed articles.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [544]-570) and index.

Table of Contents:
Series Note
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Introduction by N. Jayaram and Satish Saberwal
I. Family Sphere: Introduction
1:Partition of the Household (T.N. Madan)
2:Muslim Karkhanedars in Delhi (S.M. Akram Rizvi)
3:The Decline of Nayar Taravads (Robin Jeffrey)
4:Restitution of Conjugal Rights: A Controversial Case in Colonial Bombay (Sudhir Chandra)
5:Marital Interaction and Adjustment (G.N. Ramu)
Further Readings
II.Cultural Sphere: Introduction
1:The State and Caste Conflicts: Two Cases from Tamil Nadu (Björn Alm)
2:Communal Riots and Labour: Bengal's Jute Mill-hands in the 1890s (Dipesh Chakrabarty)
3:Some Unconscious Aspects of Ethnic Violence in India (Sudhir Kakar)
4:Mizoram: Ethnic Dynamics of Autonomy and Secession (Urmila Phadnis)
5:Time, Self, and Community Features of the Sikh Militant Discourse (Veena Das)
6:Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact (Nicholas B. Dirks)
Further Readings
III. Political Sphere: Introduction
1:Rebellion as Custom ( Ramachandra Guha)
2:Protest, Revolution and the Student Leader (Sudhir Kakar and Kamla Chowdhry)
3:Dynamics of Factional Conflict: The Break-up of the Indian National Congress in 1969 (P.N. Rastogi)
4:Conflict Cycles: The Interaction of Local and Regional Politics in India (Donald W. Attwood)
Further Readings
IV. Work Sphere:
1:Agrarian Relations in Tanjore District (André Béteille)
2:The Politics of Agrarian Tension in Kerala (T.K. Oommen)
3:Worker Consciousness and Trade Union Response in Bombay (E.A. Ramaswamy)
4:Strategies in the Bombay Textile Strike, 1982—83 (H. van Wersch)
Further Readings
V. Conflict Resolution:
1:Judicial Functions of Panchayats in Shanti Nagar (Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed)
2:Clan, Kinship, and Panchayat Justice Among the Jats of Western Uttar Pradesh (Stig Toft Madsen)
3:Some Notes on Law and Change in North India (Bernard S. Cohn)
4:Village Disputes and Colonial Law: Two Cases From Chattisgarh, Central India (Saurabh Dube)
5:Social Organization at the District Courts: Colleague Relationships Among Indian Lawyers (Charles Morrison)
6:The Aborted Restoration of 'Indigenous' Law in India (Marc Galanter)
7:Courts and Conflict in an Indian City: A Study in Legal Impact (Robert L. Kidder)
Epilogue (N. Jayaram and Satish Saberwal)
Postscript: Continued Engagement with Conflict (N. Jayaram and Late Satish Saberwal)
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index.