This volume presents an integrated collection of essays around the theme of India's failure to grapple with the big questions of human rights protections affecting marginalized minority groups in the country's recent rush to modernization.

Satvinder Juss is a Professor of Law at King's College London and a Barrister.

Part One

1. Arudra Burra - Civil liberties in the early constitution: the CrossRoads and Organiser cases
2. Rajgopal Saikumar - The constitutional politics of judicial review and the Supreme Court's human rights discourse
3. Surabhi Chopra - Securing rights, protecting the nation?: national security and the Indian Supreme Court
4. Siddharth Peter de Souza - India's parallel justice systems: engaging with Lok Adalats, Gram Nyayalayas, Nari Adalats and Khap Panchayats through human rights

Part Two

5. Satvinder Juss - Unconstitutionalising India's death penalty
6. Oishik Sircar - Gujarat 2002: refracted memories, inadequate images
7. Robert Wintemute - Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights in India: from Naz Foundation to Navtej Singh Johar and beyond
8. Sital Kalantry and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum - Acid attacks in India: the case for state and corporate cccountability for gender-based crimes

Part Three

9. Raminder Kaur - The right for rights: the lawful and the lawless in India
10. Rajshree Chandra - India's Forest Rights Act: righting indigeneity, subverting property
11. Philipe Cullet - The human right to water: a testing ground for neoliberal policies
12. Bhumika Modh and Uma Mahesh Sathyanarayan - Realising human rights obligations of the World Bank in India: a human rights critique of the World Bank Country Partnership Strategy for India (2013-17)