Political Ideology of the Women’s Movement’s Engagement with Law

Abstract

The editors of this volume set me a very difficult task.  I have never been a student of law, though long association with Lotika Sarkar has stimulated a latent fascination for the layers of meaning one may sometimes find contained within legal concepts.  As a student of history and politics, I have also been intrigued by the political dynamics of interpretation of some of these concepts.  At times such interpretations have satisfied and strengthened my own inherited respect for the rule of law.