TY - GEN AU - Suresh, Mayur Ed. AU - Narrain, Siddharth Ed. TI - Shifting scales of justice : : the supreme court in neo-liberal India SN - 9788125054320 U1 - 347.5412 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Blackswan pvt. ltd. KW - N1 - Contents List of Figures and Table ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgements xiii Preface xv Upendra Baxi Introduction 1 Mayur Suresh and Siddharth Narrain Embedded Judiciary: Or the Judicial State of Exception? Aditya Nigam 22 In the Name of the People: The Expansion ofJudicial Power Usha Ramanathan 39 Environment and the Will to Rule: Supreme Court and Public Interest Litigation in the 1990sNivedita Menon 59 Fundamental Rights and Public Interest Litigation in India: Overreaching or Underachieving?Varun Gauri 79 Social Justice and the Supreme Court Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Madhav Khosla 109 Swallowing a Bitter PIL?: Reflections on Progressive Strategies for Public Interest Litigation inIndia Arun K. Thiruvengadam 120 A Meandering Jurisprudence of the Court: The Evolving Case Law Related to WaterPhilippe Cullet 139 The Judicial Nineties: Of Politics, Power and Dissent Ujjwal Kumar Singh 162 Notes on Contributors 183 Index 185 ER -