Article(electronic)#1July 1996
Caste Politics, Violence, and the Panchayat in a South Indian Community
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Volume 38, Issue 3, p. 484-509
ISSN: 1475-2999
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].