Book Review: Sabyasachi Dasgupta, In Defence of Honour and Justice: Sepoy Rebellions in the Nineteenth Century

This thesis aims to uncover and explain the notions of honour used to instigate and justify honour killings of women and girls in Pakistan and amongst the UK’s Pakistani community....

Sabyasachi Dasgupta, In Defence of Honour and Justice: Sepoy Rebellions in the Nineteenth Century, Primus Books, Delhi, 2015, x + 143 pp., ₹795 (Hardback)....

Last year, a new book by Dr. Thomas Durell Young was published by the British publisher Bloomsbury, entitled THE ANATOMY OF POST-COMMUNIST EUROPEAN DEFENCE INSTITUTIONS: THE MIRAGE...

Given its psychological and sociological importance, especially in non-liberal societies, honour may be the most undertheorised normative phenomenon. Philosophical neglect of honou...

Substantive justice is an idea of justice that seeks to present it comprehensively and completely in society. Substantive justice in this case does not only interpret the law as li...

Is the right of self-defence (Art. 51 UN Charter), in equivalence to the prohibition of the use of force (Art. 2 No. 4 UN Charter), limited to forcible measures of counter-defence ...

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Defining Moments in Bengal: 1920–1947, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2014, 403 pp. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Colonial State:...

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