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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Civil Rights, Civic Myths -- CHAPTER ONE Rethinking Race and Nation -- CHAPTER TWO Reconstructing Democracy -- CHAPTER THREE Internationalizing Freedom -- CHAPTER FOUR Americanizing the Negro -- CHAPTER FIVE Decolonizing America -- Conclusion: Racial Justice beyond Civil Rights -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

The contributions, by eminent scholars, included in 'The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law 2016' discuss the discipline of comparative law in India, and is of immense importance for legal scholarship around the globe. The issues covered include corporate law, constitutional law, human rights, environmental law, globalization, democracy, privatization and several other contemporary legal issues.

"Donald Trump's election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists around the world. Yet most of the immediate analysis neglects longer-term accounting of how the United States arrived here. Race and America's Long War examines the relationship between war, politics, police power, and the changing contours of race and racism in the contemporary United States. Nikhil Pal Singh argues that the United States' pursuit of war since the September 11 terrorist attacks has reanimated a longer history of imperial statecraft that segregated and eliminated enemies both within and overseas, frequently blurring the boundaries between the two. America's territorial expansion and Indian removals, settler in-migration and nativist restriction, African slavery and its afterlives were formative social and political processes that drove the rise of the United States as a capitalist world power long before the onset of globalization. Spanning the course of U.S. history, these essays show how the return of racism and war as seemingly permanent features of American public and political life is at the heart of the present crisis and collective disorientation."--Provided by publisher

Focussing on 7 tribes of the Punjab declared as 'criminal' by the British administration in India, this study highlights the problem of how the concepts of 'tribe' and 'criminal' continue to remain ill- and variously-defined, they constituting the most oppressed in an otherwise prosperous state