The Bihar Caste-based Survey and the constitutional amendment guaranteeing reservation for women in Parliament bring the question of delimitation to the fore once again. In the absence of immediate delimitation, these two events show that the under-represented communities and sections of society will only continue to remain unrepresented.
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Mutinies for Equality: Contemporary Developments in Law and Gender in India edited by Tanja Herklotz and Siddharth Peter de Souza, Cambridge University Press, 2021; pp vii+295, `989 (hardbound).
Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India by Oishik Sircar, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021; pp xiii + 370 , `1,399.99 (hardcover).
