Law and Society in Modern India

By Marc Galanter

Though "modern Indian law" is actually of Western origin, Galanter here contends that independent India has accepted this mid-twentieth century legal system intellectually and institutionally. His thirteen articles, covering a wide range of issues in Indian society, explore the operation of modern Indian law and explicate the ways in which a complex body of formal law accommodates and adjusts itself to local conditions to which it is alien.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195632052
• ISBN13: 9780195632057
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"