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 in his analysis of the choices and tensions in the Indian policies of compensatory preference.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195629167
ISBN-13
9780195629163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1289912
Product Key Features
Author
Marc Galanter
Publication Name
Competing Equalities : Law and the Backward Classes in India
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Series
Oxford India Paperbacks Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
662 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Copyright Date
1984
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Life Sciences / Botany, Public Policy / Social Policy, General