Non-State Legal Practices in India

Day 1, 5 Dec. 2015

8.30-9.00
9.00-9.30
9.30-

Registration
Inauguration
Pratiksha Baxi: Legal Pluralism, Sexual

10.15
10.1511.00

Chair:
Violence and Public Secrecy in India
Rashmi Pant: The Making of the Legal Subject: Maarten
Peasant Litigants in Early 20th Century
Bavinck

11.00-

Garhwal Himalayas
Tea

11.30
11.30-

Maarten Bavinck: Ocean & Coastal Grabbing:

12.15
12.15-

A Contemporary Legal Pluralist Perspective

Manisha Sethi: Trial and Terror: Unlawful

13.00
13.00-

Activities Prevention Action (UAPA) in Courts

Lunch

14.00
14.00-

Vidhu Verma: Multiple Legitimacies Justice,

14.45

Legality and Indigenous Systems of Law in

Chair:

14.45-

India
Michael Dusche: The Spirit of the Laws and

15.30

the Law of the Spirits: Legal Plurality, Porous

Baindur

Chair:
Neshat
Quaiser

Meera

Legalities and Indias Alternative Legal

15.30-

Modernity
Tea

16.00
16.00-

Kshithij Urs: Parallel Institutions & Para-Legal

16.45

Arrangements of Good Governance & their

Chair:
Lalitha

16.45-

Threat to Democracy
Kaveri Haritas: Antagonistic Alliances The

17.30
17.30-

Urban Poor and the Slum Law in Bangalore

Evening Snack

18.00
18.00-

Deepa Dhanraj: Screening of Invoking

19.00
19-19.30
20.00-

Justice on Women Jamaats in Tamil Nadu

Discussion
Conference Dinner

22.00

Kamath

Chair: Smitha
Waingankar
MCPH Lawns

Non-State Legal Practices in India

Day 2, 6 Dec. 2015

09.30-

Anindita Majumdar: Informing the

10.15

Contemporary through the Mythic: The

10.15-

Chair:
Bizarre World of Assisted Conception
Pratiksha Baxi
Padmapriya Srivathsa: Parent as Legal Subject

11.00
11.00-

in Customary and Modern Hindu Law

Tea

11.30
11.30-

Bhanuprabha Brahma: Non-State Legal Actors

12.15

and Regulation of Sexuality, A Case Study of

Chair:
Tamara Relis

12.15-

Student Organisation in Assam

Rimpi Borah: Towards a Feminist

13.00
13.00-

Understanding of Legal Pluralism in India

Lunch

14.00
14.00-

Zo Headley: The Devils Court. Trial of Katta

14.45
14.45-

Panchayat in Tamil Nadu

Tarun Kattumana: Lack of consensus: Khap

15.30
15.30-

Panchayats and State Law

Tea

16.00
16.00-

Tamara Relis: Complexities of Human Rights &

16.45

Development: Comparing Victims, Families &

Lawyers in Indian State & Non-State Justice

Chair:
Kaveri Haritas

Chair:

16.45-

Processes
Kamath & Waingankar: The Interplay of

17.30

Customary and Statutory Law through

17.30-

Municipalisation in Aizawl, Mizoram

Evening Snack

18.00
18.00-

Vidwan Shri Madhur P Balasubramanyam,

19.00

Sri P Shridhar Achar and Sri Balachandra

Translation:

Bahgavath: Renderings of Justice in Vachana

Shruti Bhat

Lyrics

Rashmi Pant

Non-State Legal Practices in India

Day 3, 7 Dec. 2015

9.30-

Meera Baindur: From Stamp Paper to Brass

10.15

Bells: Procedures of Petition and Justice in

Chair:
Anindita

10.15-

Golu Devs Territory

Ram Kumar Thakur: Jan Sunwai as Alternative

11.00
11.00-

Legal Modernity
Tea

11.30
11.30-

Chirag Thakkar: Transacting Suffering for

12.15

Justice Through Movement & Ecstasy in

12.15-

Dargahs of South Asia

Neshat Quaiser: In and Outside the State:

13.00

Legal Conceptions and Juridical Practices

13.00-

among Muslims in India

Lunch

14.00
14.00-

Valedictory Session

Majumdar

Chair:
Vidhu Verma

Michael

14.30

Dusche
Thahir Jamal

Each speaker has 30 minutes to present and 15 minutes for

discussion