📚 Law and Social Transformation | ✨ By Dr. P. Ishwara Bhat | ⚖️ New Edition (2025)
✒️ A Visionary Treatise on India's Constitutional Role in Empowerment, Equality & Change
🔍 Overview:
A seminal work that delves deep into the symbiotic relationship between law and societal change in India. Dr. Bhat presents a compelling narrative on how the Indian legal system contributes to multiculturalism, justice, and transformative constitutionalism, particularly in a post-globalization and post-pandemic era.
📖 Divided into Four Thematic Parts:
Jurisprudential Foundations – Traces India’s journey as a rule-of-law democracy striving for justice and equality.
Identity and Pluralism – Explores law’s engagement with religion, language, regionalism, and ethnicity.
Empowerment & Rights – Focus on the Constitution’s interface with women, children, SC/ST/OBCs, and other marginalized groups.
Modernization & Globalization – Examines the impact of legal changes on economy, polity, civil society, and justice delivery, including a new chapter on COVID-19’s socio-legal impact.
📌 Key Features:
✅ Covers recent landmark case laws and socio-legal developments
✅ A new chapter on law during the COVID-19 pandemic
✅ An essential perspective on transformative constitutionalism
✅ Ideal for academic, legal, policy, and civil society readership
👥 Recommended For:
Law students, legal academics, sociologists, judges, lawyers, policymakers, NGOs, and anyone invested in understanding how law shapes – and is shaped by – social transformation in India.
