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Anyone know the history of this? Since commies banned it, may be worth reading it and nonexistent nationalistic groups in India can use it, counter commies etc, or so the dream goes... <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->RESOURCE: <b>Censored Book on Public Interest Litigation in India Now
Online</b>

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Ed. note: Dr. Hans Dembowski wrote an important study of public
interest litigation in India, concentrating on the Calcutta region, published
by Oxford University Press in 2001.  The ISBN is 0195653092.  However,
for reasons not yet clearly established, the <b>Calcutta High Court issued
an order of contempt of court for the publisher and the author. </b> The
matter remains pending now, five years later, and the hard copy book has
been withdrawn by the publisher.  When I met the author at this year's
BASAS conference in London, I suggested that when the text was
available online that he should share this with the H-ASIA members for their
information.  The document has now been put on the web and is available
as Dr. Dembowski notes below.  I have also added, at the end of the
post, a table of contents for the document.  The book was published in
English; the site is bi-lingual, German and English.              FFC


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From: Hans Dembowski <Hans.Dembowski@fsd.de>



<b>A controversial study on judicial activism and civil society in  India
is finally available again</b> – accessible at the following URL:

<http://www.asienhaus.de/taking-state-to-court>.

Originally, Oxford University Press published Hans Dembowski's book
_Taking the State to Court – Public Interest Litigation and the Public
Sphere_ in early 2001.  However, OUP discontinued international
distribution that year, because the Calcutta High Court started
contempt-of-court proceedings against the author and the publisher.

The case has been
kept pending since.  No judgement was passed. For five years, academic
debate has thus been blocked. <b>The sociological study deals with several
politically relevant matters, including urban planning, governance, the
environment and, of course, the role of the judiciary</b>. <b>The entire book
is available online in a pdf-version. Asienhaus is a German NGO, the
pdf-files are free.</b>

Thanks - and best wishes,

Hans

Dr. Hans Dembowski
E+Z Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit
D+C Development and Cooperation
Frankfurter Societät
Postfach
60 268 Frankfurt/Main

Tel.:      +49 (0) 69/7501-4366
Fax:      +49 (0) 69/7501-4855
E-Mail: euz.editor@fsd.de
www.inwent.org/e+z
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