A Qualified HopePub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.1017/9781108565530.007
Karthik Rao-Cavale
{"title":"The Art of Buying Time","authors":"Karthik Rao-Cavale","doi":"10.1017/9781108565530.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565530.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310920,"journal":{"name":"A Qualified Hope","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115247945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Qualified HopePub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.1017/9781108565530.004
Poorvi Chitalkar, V. Gauri
{"title":"The Recent Evolution of Public Interest Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court","authors":"Poorvi Chitalkar, V. Gauri","doi":"10.1017/9781108565530.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565530.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310920,"journal":{"name":"A Qualified Hope","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128116251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Qualified HopePub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.1017/9781108565530.010
Rosalind Dixon, R. Chowdhury
{"title":"A Case for Qualified Hope?","authors":"Rosalind Dixon, R. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1017/9781108565530.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565530.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310920,"journal":{"name":"A Qualified Hope","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116204674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Qualified HopePub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.1017/9781108565530.006
Sudhir Krishnaswamy, S. Swaminathan
{"title":"Public Trust in the Indian Judiciary","authors":"Sudhir Krishnaswamy, S. Swaminathan","doi":"10.1017/9781108565530.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565530.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310920,"journal":{"name":"A Qualified Hope","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126283760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Qualified HopePub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.1017/9781108565530.002
N. Robinson
{"title":"The Structure and Functioning of the Supreme Court of India","authors":"N. Robinson","doi":"10.1017/9781108565530.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565530.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310920,"journal":{"name":"A Qualified Hope","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122215985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Qualified HopePub Date : 2019-08-29DOI: 10.1017/9781108565530.003
Aparna Chandra, William H. J. Hubbard, Sital Kalantry
{"title":"The Supreme Court of India","authors":"Aparna Chandra, William H. J. Hubbard, Sital Kalantry","doi":"10.1017/9781108565530.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565530.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":310920,"journal":{"name":"A Qualified Hope","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129528760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Qualified HopePub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.1017/9781108565530.005
M. Galanter, Vasujith Ram
{"title":"Suo Motu Intervention and the Indian Judiciary","authors":"M. Galanter, Vasujith Ram","doi":"10.1017/9781108565530.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565530.005","url":null,"abstract":"Legal systems are hierarchical constructions, some taller and deeper, some shallower, and commonly portrayed as an orderly pyramid. Sometimes an incident in this hierarchic landscape reminds us that, as in a game of snakes and ladders, there may be startling and unexpected connections (and disconnects) between different locations in the system. We propose to talk about the practice of the constitutional courts in India to use the device of acting “suo moto” (or alternatively spelled, suo motu)— i.e., on its own initiative, without being petitioned by a claimant or party to address what the court regards as a situation requiring extraordinary intervention on the part of the court.1 In Section 2, we describe a recent intervention initiated by the Supreme Court, in response to a newspaper report of a gang-rape in a village a thousand miles away. In Section 3, we assemble the available data about the incidence of this practice of suo motu intervention, its frequency, form, and results. In Section 5, we attempt to explain why the Indian higher courts engage in this practice; in section 6 we speculate about the effects of this practice, on the courts and on Indian social and political life.","PeriodicalId":310920,"journal":{"name":"A Qualified Hope","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129540132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Qualified HopePub Date : 2019-08-01DOI: 10.1017/9781108565530.008
M. Mohsin Alam Bhat
{"title":"Court as a Symbolic Resource","authors":"M. Mohsin Alam Bhat","doi":"10.1017/9781108565530.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565530.008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes the impact of the Indian Supreme Court's watershed case on quotas for \"backward classes,\" the Indra Sawhneycase. It explores the role of the decision in the mobilization of Dalit Muslims, who have been excluded from the constitutionally mandated affirmative action regime for the erstwhile Untouchable or Dalit castes (\"Scheduled Castes\"). It shows how the incipient mobilization came to creatively interpret the decision, in particular its interpretation of Hindu caste and a partial recognition of Muslim social stratification, as an endorsement of their claims. The appropriation and activation of the judgment allowed the mobilization to generate further political support, convince state commissions and eventually mount a constitutional challenge in the Court. This account aims to highlight the symbolic potential of the Court's decisions, often through unintended mechanisms, to reshape and extend social movement politics. It also highlights the role of political constraints, organizational infrastructure and the Indian institutional context as relevant factors in assessing judicial impact.","PeriodicalId":310920,"journal":{"name":"A Qualified Hope","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124706330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}