The Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice, and Human RightsThe Wages of Impunity consists of essays on human rights and civil liberties in India. Reiterating the indispensability of fundamental rights, the essays focus on aspects such as secularism, socialism, and the right to life, liberty, free speech and association. Using the Constitution as the point of departure, the author opens up the complexity of rights through incisive analyses of case law on each of these aspects. |
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Contents
The Saga of Impunity | 1 |
Justice Must be Seen to be Done | 13 |
Colonial Baggage | 18 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice, and Human Rights |
| Author | K. G. Kannabiran |
| Publisher | Orient BlackSwan, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 812502638X, 9788125026389 |
| Length | 372 pages |
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