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...Anuj Bhuwania Bhuwania’s article studies the politics of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in contemporary India. PIL is a unique jurisdiction initiated by the Indian Supreme Court in the aftermath of the Emergency of 1975-77. Bhuwania locates the history of PIL in India’s postcolonial predicament...

... with the specialized scholarship and make in the field of postcolonial legalism. This is the pe- rich contributions of their own. culiar jurisdiction, developed since the late 1970s, called Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in which the Indian judiciary, now possibly the most pow- erful in the world, has...

..., when it suggested national lib- other elements of governmental control over the pil- ford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 42–44. See also eration and a nonaligned autonomy...

... consciousness” 26 and posits legal reform as the objective of mobilization. Consider, for example, the proliferation of legal activism in India following the Emergency (1975–77). This was propelled by the introduction, after the Emergency, of public interest litigation (PIL) by the Indian supreme court...

... that Selim ordered his Rivalry component of Ottoman-­Iranian relations, with army to prepare for the campaign against Shah Iraq the main theater of confrontation. Isma’il, massacring the Anatolian qizilbash on The emergence of naql al-­jana’iz and pil- his way to decisive victory...

...Ila Pathak Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1W1). The Legal Machinery and Its Inability to Guarantee Democratic Rights Ila Pathak Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been used by supporting evidence to report...

... reformers, it is a constant feature of the pilgrimage systems that mobilize massive numbers of pilgrims through vast territories. Pil- grimages are a major feature of world religions, for they connect the local and the global—the particular and the universal—in a complex system of practices and beliefs...

... Pradesh, including the Buddhist pil- tion, the Chini Lama family is insinuated into the grimage site, Bamdila. Jobs included road lives of villagers through their ownership of large building-mostly portering, or breaking up and tracts of land in the village, their role as adjutants carrying rocks...

... That is the second tyranny of religious majori- zealots of the Jamiat tried to disrupt the annual pil- ties-the tyranny they inflict upon their own corelig- grimage of the Zikris. Since then they have been ionists by constructing a totally homogenous ver- demanding that the Zikris should also be declared...

... be- holy places, a scenario that would be completely altered came more prominent, especially with regard to their during the 2000 trip. respective claims to Jerusalem. The second papal pil- Even the location of the pope’s arrival was plagued grimage came approximately at the same time...

... these records give us an incredible pic- donesia. Perhaps the main one centered on the an- ture of what transoceanic connections among re- nual conduct of the hajj. The Indies sent more pil- gions must have really looked like for decades at grims in some years to the Hijaz than did any other a time...

...—that polyglot intermediary needed for the the Gulf trying to accumulate and, more impor- conduct of business between the Ottoman Porte and tantly, interpret the ever greater volume of news Europe in the same period. Indeed, by leaning upon disseminated by growing numbers of travelers, pil- Gulf trading...

... took exile. For example, here is a criticism of Taghi Modaressi’s The Pil- Persian grim’s Rules of Etiquette along the lines I have The defined: “The quick, light, glancing manner...

... a positiv- Lower-Middle-Class the nation. Secularism along with democracy, ist and binary framework, secularism was jux- Secularism nationalism, and socialism were the four pil- taposed...

... characterized so-­called Indian Ocean societies. on overtones of resistance to both Saudi orthodoxy Mecca and the annual hajj have for many scholars and European imperialism.”9 Drawing on the pil- served as exemplary sites for this cosmopolitanism. grimage account of ‘Abd al-­Majid Daryabadi, Bose Yet...

.... Levtzion, Nehemia, and Randall L. Pouwels. History of Islam in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. Low, Michael Christopher. “Empire and the Hajj: Pil- grims, Plagues, and Pan-­Islam under British Surveil- lance, 1865 – 1908.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 40...

... appreciated the work in Tamil Sangam. Its secretary., E. M. Subramania Pil- 123 lai immediately shot off a letter to the government, and went on to suggest a dozen widely-respected wherein he stated, Tamil scholars who...