This book presents some of the finest essays on social justice, rights and public policy. With a new Introduction, it covers a range of issues and offers a guide to understanding law and socio-legal studies in South Asia.

Introduction: Exploring the Contours of Interdisciplinary Law PART I Colonialism, Insurgency, Exodus, and the Constitution 1 Law and Terror in the Age of Constitution-Making 2 The Gandhian Conception of the Constitution 3 On the Fringe: The Tribal Laws 4 Law, Rights, and Public Policy PART II Gendered Habitations of Precarity 5 The Trajectories of Work, Sexuality and Citizenship: The Rights of the Transgender in India 6 'Vimla to Pagal Hai!' [Vimla is a Lunatic!] 7 Legitimating Love: Tis Hazari and the Judicial Process 8 A Legal Framework to Prevent Trafficking of Women and Young Girls During Disasters in India 9 Victims, Whores, and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law PART III Property, Dispossessions, and Spatial Justice 10 'Bargaining', Gender Equality and Legal Change: The Case of India's Inheritance Laws 11 Production of Space in Urban India: Legal and Policy Challenges to Land Assembly 12 Rural Civilities: Caste, Gender, and Public Life in Kerala 13 The New Technologies and the Constitution of 'Theft' 14 The Geographical Indications Act: Place Matters