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Public Distribution System Reforms And Consumption In Chhattisgarh: A Comparative Empirical Analysis, Prasad Krishnamurthy, Vikram Pathania, Sharad Tandon
Public Distribution System Reforms And Consumption In Chhattisgarh: A Comparative Empirical Analysis, Prasad Krishnamurthy, Vikram Pathania, Sharad Tandon
Prasad Krishnamurthy
Chhattisgarh’s Public Delivery System (PDS) reforms have been lauded as a model for the National Food Security Act and for other states to emulate. Previous research has shown that PDS rice consumption increased in Chhattisgarh following reforms by the Raman Singh government that began in 2004. However, one third of PDS rice consumption growth in Chhattisgarh from 1999/2000 to 2009/2010 took place before 2004. This magnitude is over 70 percent when growth is measured relative to comparison regions that undertook no reforms. This finding suggests that the pre-2004 reforms to Fair Price Shop (FPS) ownership and state procurement by the …
Making Claims: Indian Litigants And The Expansion Of The English Legal World In The Eighteenth Century, Arthur Fraas
Making Claims: Indian Litigants And The Expansion Of The English Legal World In The Eighteenth Century, Arthur Fraas
Arthur Mitchell Fraas
This paper explores the British Imperial legal world of the mid-eighteenth century. Within this period, the previously confined spaces of English law and legal institutions became open to an ever widening set of legal subjects, both people as well as places. The paper focuses on what was at the time perhaps England’s most remote and murkily defined legal space, the East India Company (EIC) settlements at Madras, Bombay and Calcutta. The paper shows how a series of legal actors: metropolitan judges, Indian litigants and elite lawyers, first bridged the legal worlds of England and the subcontinent. I argue that by …
Pfizer, Inc. V. India Foreign Sovereigns’ Standing To Sue For Treble Damages, Gary Shaw
Pfizer, Inc. V. India Foreign Sovereigns’ Standing To Sue For Treble Damages, Gary Shaw
Gary M. Shaw
No abstract provided.
Innocents Abroad: Reflections On Summer Abroad Law Programs, Eileen Kaufman, Louise Harmon
Innocents Abroad: Reflections On Summer Abroad Law Programs, Eileen Kaufman, Louise Harmon
Louise Harmon
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Shelter From The Storm: An Analysis Of U.S. Refugee Law As Applied To Tibetans Formerly Residing In India, Eileen Kaufman
Shelter From The Storm: An Analysis Of U.S. Refugee Law As Applied To Tibetans Formerly Residing In India, Eileen Kaufman
Eileen Kaufman
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Women And Law: A Comparative Analysis Of The United States And Indian Supreme Courts’ Equality Jurisprudence, Eileen Kaufman
Women And Law: A Comparative Analysis Of The United States And Indian Supreme Courts’ Equality Jurisprudence, Eileen Kaufman
Eileen Kaufman
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The Case For Repeal Of India's Sodomy Law, Yuvraj Joshi
The Case For Repeal Of India's Sodomy Law, Yuvraj Joshi
Yuvraj Joshi
This Article surveys some of the arguments for and against the repeal of India’s sodomy law. The first part analyses s.377 of the Indian Penal Code and considers its consequences for India's gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, hijra and kothi persons. The second part provides an overview of the various theoretical and political positions taken in the sodomy law debate. The third part examines the rights-based arguments that have been made in support of repealing or reading down s.377, and the feminist and queer critiques of these arguments. The fourth part considers the arguments against the repeal that have been put …
Constitution And "Extraconstitution": Emergency Powers In Postcolonial Pakistan And India, Anil Kalhan
Constitution And "Extraconstitution": Emergency Powers In Postcolonial Pakistan And India, Anil Kalhan
Anil Kalhan
This essay explores the experiences with emergency and emergency-like powers in postcolonial Pakistan and India to illustrate the ways in which constitutional and extraconstitutional states of exception can converge in their application. The experiences in Pakistan with what I term its "extraconstitution" - illustrated most recently by the state of "emergency" declared by Pervez Musharraf in 2007 - demonstrate, perhaps unsurprisingly, that extraconstitutional assertions of emergency powers can provide a ready template for authoritarian rulers to usurp power, violate fundamental rights, and transform the constitutional landscape in the guise of addressing a crisis. At the same time, the authoritarianism in …