Since the late 1990s, there has been an explosion of scholarship on South Asian legal
history. This article situates the new literature within the longer tradition of postcolonial South …

This article critically analyses the current status of rape shield laws in India. The article
begins by assessing the effectiveness of these laws by examining the statutory provisions …

A major impediment to justice for rape in Bangladesh is the colonial rule of corroboration,
which requires judges to verify the truthfulness of a rape complainant's testimony with other …

Queer, post-colonial and Black feminist scholars and activists have long cautioned against
the dangerous exclusions and complicities entailed in even the best-intentioned efforts to …

In 2017 an all-male nine-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court delivered the landmark
Justice KS Puttaswamy & Ors v. Union of India judgment on privacy. In this book, the authors …

In the progression of stages toward unintended lives, the two stops on either side of abortion—
contraception and infanticide—have been studied extensively by historians of South Asia …

In response to the national and global public outcry over the ghastly Nirbhaya gang rape
case in Delhi in 2012, India witnessed reforms in a set of extant laws to deal with sexual …

On 16 December 2012, India erupted in national outrage against the rape of a 23-yearold
female student in New Delhi, christened “Nirbhaya”(fearless). In the aftermath, there was a …

India's system of separate Hindu, Muslim, and Christian family laws is often cast as a threat
to national unity. In contrast, I argue that Indian law was structured by the emphasis of …

On 16 December 2012, India erupted in national outrage against the rape of a 23-year-old
female student in New Delhi, christened “Nirbhaya”(fearless). In the aftermath, there was a …