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Caste Politics, Violence, and the Panchayat in a South Indian Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

S. George Vincentnathan
S. George Vincentnathan
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Aurora University
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Abstract

Mysteriously, some sense justice when others sense injustice. … The desire to sense justice in events may cause people to look to law as an instrument to control… events. Then justice has preceded law. Law is made a part of events and is itself then viewed as promoting or blocking justice, depending on the role it plays and also depending on the perceived self-interest of the participants in, or viewers of, the events [Hartzler 1976:4].

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Techniques of Social Control
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , July 1996 , pp. 484 - 509
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1996

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