Justice in practice : legal ethnography of a Pakistani Punjabi village / Muḥammad Azam Chaudhary
By: علامہ محمد اقبال .ʻAllāmah Muḥammad Iqbāl
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TextPublisher: Karachi : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: 248 p.ISBN: 0195790634.Subject(s): Customary law | Political questions and judicial powerDDC classification: 347.5491 A991J 1999 Summary: "This study discusses the highly debated issue of suitability of the official versus the traditional system of justice for Pakistani society.The focus is on the minute ethnographic details of the functioning of different institutions of traditional as well as official systems of justice in a Punjabi village in Pakistan. The author has discussed various reasons for and types of. Conflicts that are of common occurrence in villages.Detailed case studies provide first hand information about the village situation, increasing conflicts, and the combination of the two types of judicial institutions made by villagers."-
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"This study discusses the highly debated issue of suitability of the official versus the traditional system of justice for Pakistani society.The focus is on the minute ethnographic details of the functioning of different institutions of traditional as well as official systems of justice in a Punjabi village in Pakistan. The author has discussed various reasons for and types of. Conflicts that are of common occurrence in villages.Detailed case studies provide first hand information about the village situation, increasing conflicts, and the combination of the two types of judicial institutions made by villagers."-
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