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020 _a9788125054320
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_bSUR
100 _aSuresh, Mayur Ed.
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245 _aShifting scales of justice :
_bthe supreme court in neo-liberal India
260 _bOrient Blackswan pvt. ltd.
_c2014
_aNew Delhi
300 _axxvi,199p.
505 _aContents 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
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890 _aIndia
891 _aFP
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