For The Better And For The Worse

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Description
Legislations have to be enacted, amended or repeated for catering to the needs of the changing society and the State. It is for the State or the Executive to present the Legislature with proposals or bills. The responsibility of the state increases when it rules or governs colonies where there is a vacuum or the need for change. The British East India Company was required to have rules in the form of orders, regulations , resolutions and enactments in several areas to achieve this purpose. For The Better And For The Worse, a peep into the past, focuses on these areas to appreciate and analyse the legislative activity that took place during the colonial rule. It covers areas such as sati, female infanticide, child marriage, widow marriage, salt, indigo, opium, labour, slavery, justice, trial, punishment and prisons. Readers would be the best Judges to opine on the best and the worse of these provisions.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1.  Company and the British Raj
Chapter 2.  Indigo
Chapter 3.  Salt
Chapter 4.  Opium
Chapter 5.  Sati (Suttee)
Chapter 6.  Marriage of Hindu Widows
Chapter 7.  Female Infanticide
Chapter 8.  Child Marriage
Chapter 9.  Hindu Inheritance Removal of Disabilities
Chapter 10. Child, Women and Immigrant Labour
Chapter 11. Press
Chapter 12. Seditious Meetings
Chapter 13. Slavery
Chapter 14. Apprenticeship
Chapter 15. Whipping
Chapter 16. Prisons/ Prisoners
Chapter 17. Prostitution
Chapter 18. Devdasi
Chapter 19. The Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Act XXI of 1860)
Chapter 20. The Religious Endowments
Chapter 21. Borstal Schools
Chapter 22. Probation of Offenders
Chapter 23. Criminal Tribes
Chapter 24. Inquest
Chapter 25. Cruelty to Animals
Chapter 26. Towards a Good Governance
Chapter 27. Towards Curbing the Growing Nationalist Movement in the Country
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Author Details
Justice S.D.Dave was enrolled as an advocate in 1962. Appointment as the District Judge in 1977, he was elevated to a Judge of the High Court of Gujarat in 1990.After retiring in 1999, Justice Dave worked for three years as the Chairman of the Gujarat State Law Commission and as the Chairman of the Gujarat State Electricity Regulatory Commission. He has worked as the Commission of Inquiry on three occasions and once as the mediator, appointed by the Government. He has also prepared a basic document 'Access to Justice in India' for deliberations. He is an Arbitrator and Consultant in Law in Ahmadabad at present.
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