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Singh on Indian International Law

By Lawrence Solum

Prabhakar Singh (University of Barcelona) has posted Indian International Law: From a Colonised Apologist to a Subaltern Protagonist on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Indian responses to international law have now seen three generations of scholarship. A decade into its independence, India began playing its role in ?Third World Approaches to International Law? (TWAIL). Early 1990s witnessed the rise of TWAIL II. Armed with interdisciplinarity and inspired by the subaltern pathology of state of 1970s, TWAIL II scholars barged into areas with approaches never seen before. Bhupinder Chimni, alone, discovered six perspectives of international law from India. My article picks up from where Prof. Anand has left off in his contribution and adds a seventh ?tribal? tale forgotten by Chimni. It is also argued that the category ?Third World? needs a redefinition as pockets of poverty are increasingly betraying geography. The conventional third world agents today work for first world masters heralding an era of absentee colonialism. My article re-emphasises the revision of international law with India as the new protagonist.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on September 14, 2009 (boomark / email).