Justice in practice
Subtitle: legal ethnography of a Pakistani Punjabi village
By: Muhammad Azam Chaudhary.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Justice, Administration of -- Pakistan -- Misalpur -- History.; Customary law -- Pakistan -- Misalpur -- History.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-243) and index.