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Enduring Local Justice in India

An Anomaly or Response to Diversity?

Leemamol Mathew is ICSSR Post-doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Rural Management Anand, leemamol{at}gmail.com

Sony Pellissery

Sony Pellissery is Associate Professor, Institute of Rural Management Anand, India.

How do collective societies deal with the issue of justice? Addressing this central question, we argue that collective societies emphasise understanding rather than rational agreement. As a result, different notions of justice embedded with socio-local identities are acceptable in a given society. Therefore, to grapple with the question of the relationship between diversity and justice, it is important to unearth the extra-rational elements in the exercise of justice. Rationally oriented notion of justice has been anthropocentric and it has focused on attaining common good. On the other hand, justice system that aims at rhythmic existence with living and non-living organisms de-emphasises consensus on justice itself.

Psychology & Developing Societies, Vol. 21, No. 1, 13-31 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/097133360902100102


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