Challenging the rule(s) of law :  colonialism, criminology and human rights in India / 
 Challenging the rules of law 
edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Ranbir Singh. 
 - Thousand Oaks, Calif. :  SAGE Publications,  2008. 
 - xix, 495 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Laws of metamorphosis : from nomad to offender / Meena Radhakrishna -- Victims and villains : the construction of female criminality in colonial Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee -- 'That despicable specimen of humanity' : policing of homosexuality in India / Arvind Narrain -- Sexual assault and the law / Kalpana Kannabiran -- Social exclusion and criminal law / S.R. Sankaran -- Building a subaltern women's perspective / Jayshree P. Mangubhai and Aloysius Irudayam S.J. -- Whose life is it anyway? : Adivasi communities and entitlements to life / Seema Misra -- Preserving wellness and personhood : a psychosocial approach to the child / Shekhar P. Seshadri and Kaveri I. Haritas -- Penal strategies and political resistance in colonial and independent India / Ujjwal Kumar Singh -- Communities, gender and the border : a legal narrative on India's North East / Paula Banerjee -- Parens Patriae : exercising patriarchal prerogative in post-partition India / Ritu Menon -- Law and life in the state of nature : archiving stories from legal literacy / Abha Singhal Joshi -- Revisiting impunity and criminality : of corruption, collusion, consequences and victims / Vijay K. Nagaraj -- Khap Panchayats in Haryana : sites of legal pluralism / K.S. Sangwan -- Crimes, passion and detachment : colonial foundations of rule of law / Ranabir Samaddar -- Conspiracies of association : associational offences, associational freedoms and the rule of law / K.G. Kannabiran -- Of strong medicine and weak stomachs : the resort to enhanced punishment in criminal law in India / Bikram Jeet Batra -- The contexts of criminology : a brief restatement / Kalpana Kannabiran. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780761936657 (hard back) 0761936653 (hard back) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008031276 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criminal justice, Administration of--India.<br/>Rule of law--History.--India<br/>Crime--History.--India<br/>Criminology--History.--India<br/>Criminal law--India.<br/>Human rights--India.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KNS3411  / .C45 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>345.540 5