'POST-COLONIAL JURISPRUDENCE' examines:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D.
1. POST-COLONIAL JURISPRUDENCE examines the legal legacies of colonialism and challenges Eurocentric universals in law.
2. KEY THINKERS:
3. (i) Edward SAID — 'Orientalism' (1978); Western representations of the East;
4. (ii) Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK — 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' (1988);
5. (iii) Homi BHABHA — hybridity, ambivalence;
6. (iv) Antony ANGHIE — 'Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law' (2004) — international law and colonialism;
7. (v) Sundhya PAHUJA — 'Decolonising International Law' (2011);
8. (vi) Indian: UPENDRA BAXI — 'The Future of Human Rights' (2002); critique of universalism;
9. (vii) Indian: PRABHA KOTISWARAN — sex work and labour law from post-colonial angle.
10. INDIAN APPLICATIONS:
11. (i) Continuing colonial structures in Indian law (IPC 1860, Police Act 1861, Evidence Act 1872);
12. (ii) Recovery of indigenous traditions (Ambedkar's anti-caste critique);
13. (iii) South-North dialogues in international law.
14. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: Legal Research Methodology + Jurisprudence — Post-colonial legal theory; Edward Said 'Orientalism' (1978); Upendra Baxi works_
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