CHAPTERS
PART I
GENERAL
THEORY, HISTORY, ALTERNATIVES AND THE CONSTITUTION
- Law and social transformation: a theoretical discussion
- Historical and sociological discourse on law’s role in social transformation
- Alternatives to legal strategy : Gandhism, Sarvodaya, Marxism and Naxalism
- Constitution’s orientation and response to social transformation
PART II
MULTICULTURALISM AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION RELIGION, LANGUAGE, REGION AND ETHNICITY
- Religion and law
- Language and law: towards equality in language rights
- Language rights in education
- People’s language as the language of courts: perspectives, problems and the needed strategies
- Regionalism , law and social transformation
- Ethnic pluralism, tribal development and social transformation : a focus on security, self government and social justice
PART III
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION BY EMPOWERMENT
EMPOWERING THE BACKWARD CLASSES, WOMEN AND CHILDREN
- Caste, law and empowerment of the backward classes
- Constitutional policy and development towards gender justice
- Crime against women and law’s response thereto
- Law, child welfare and social transformation
PART IV
MODERNISATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
CONCEPT, FAMILY LAW, ECONOMIC REFORMS, JUSTICE DELIVERY SYSTEM AND PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY
- Modernisations and Law
- Family Law, modernization and social transformation
- Economic development, law and social transformation: focus on agriculture, industry, and environment
- Reforms in the justice delivery system, modernization and law
- Role of democracy, panchayati raj and NGOs in social transformation through law
- Conclusion
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