Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India

by Marc Galanter

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Can a democratic society pursue a policy of compensatory discrimination without forsaking equality or sliding into a system of group quotas? For over thirty years, India has been engaged in a massive effort to integrate "untouchables" and other oppressed peoples into the mainstream of Indian life. This book is the first comprehensive study of the Indian experience with policies of systematic preferential treatment. Galanter includes a discussion of the relation of the courts to public policy show more in his analysis of the choices and tensions in the Indian policies of compensatory preference. show less

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Marc Galanter
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Marc Galanter is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Centennial Professor in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes in India

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Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Science & Nature
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342.54 — Society, government, & culture Law U.S. Constitution - Bill of Rights, Amendments Asia Indian Subcontinent
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KNS1579 .G35 — Law Law reports and related materials
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