by Albeena Shakil (Editor), Gopal Guru (Editor)

This book presents a comprehensive overview of modern conceptualizations of justice in India. It analyses how these concepts relate to traditional theories of justice-in Marx, Ambedkar, Gandhi and Rawls as well as social realities in India.

Author Biography

Albeena Shakil is Professor of English at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. She has authored Understanding the Novel: A Theoretical Overview, 2015, and guest edited three issues of Summerhill: IIAS Review, IIAS Shimla. She also co-edited JGLR: Women, Law and South Asia (Upasana Mahanta and Sameena Dalwai), 2019.

Gopal Guru is Former Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Currently he is the editor of Economic and Political Weekly. His published books include Humiliation: Claims and Context (Ed.), 2009; The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Theory and Experience (co-author Sundar Sarukkai), 2012; Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social (with Sundar Sarukkai), 2019. He has worked on Bhimrao Ambedkar's 'Philosophy of Moral Realism and Political Phenomenology of Touch' and contributed 'On Caste' in the International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology.