List of Contributors

1 Introduction

Michael R. Anderson

Sumit Guha

2 Wrongs and Rights in the Maratha Country: Antiquity, Custom and Power in Eighteenth-century India

Sumit Guha

3 Civil Authority and Due Process: Colonial Criminal Justice in the Banaras Zamindari, 1781-1795

Radhika Singha

4 Sansiahs and the State: the Changing Nature of `Crime' and `Justice' in Nineteenth-century British India

Sandria Freitag

5 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman? Families and Legal Change in Nineteenth-century Malabar

G. Arunima

6 Do Changing Conceptions of Gender Justice Have a Place in Indian Women's Lives? A Study of Some Aspects of Christian Personal Laws

Archana Parashar

7 Sex and Punishment Among Mill-Workers in Early-twentieth-century Bombay

Radha Kumar

8 Elusive Social Justice, Distant Human Rights: Untouchable Women's Struggles and Dilemmas in Changing India

R.S. Khare

9 The Ethics of Struggle: Changing Political Perceptions Among Secondary School Students in a Southern Sri Lanka

Jani de Silva

10 Sectarianism and Human Rights Discourse: The Politics of Human Rights in the Post-Colonial Punjab

Pritam Singh

11 From Subject to Citizen: Towards a History of the Indian Civil Rights Movement

Nilanjan Dutta

Index