Download or read book Law and Society in Modern India written by Marc Galanter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though "modern Indian law" is actually of Western origin, Galanter here contends that independent India has accepted this mid-twentieth century legal system intellectually and institutionally. His thirteen articles, covering a wide range of issues in Indian society, explore the operation of modern Indian law, and explicate the ways in which a complex body of formal law accommodates and adjusts itself to local conditions to which it is alien.