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LEGOPOLITICAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTION PANCHAYAT A JOURNEY FROM COLONIAL TO POSTCOLONIAL TIMES

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2020(III-I).03      10.31703/gasr.2020(III-I).03      Published : Dec 1

Lego-political Judicial Institution "Panchayat", A Journey from Colonial to Postcolonial Times

Abstract

    Panchayat is a traditional judicial institute mostly remained in practice for centuries in various regions of Punjab. The transformation of traditional platforms into a Lego-political judicial institution has to be seen as the politics of judicial dispensation. The research is an attempt to investigate how political order is maintained through legal cover in social cosmos. The village Panchayat has been an important institution which disposes of numerous disputes/issues for maintenance of power structure. What are the reasons that still support both systems to work contemporarily? There may be clashes of justice in some cases but the law only supports the legal justice system with all its errors and flaws. Why is this injustice with the justice system? As in many countries like India and Bengal both systems have legal recognition. If the traditional justice system is no more working institution then why is this system still working?

    Judicial Institution, Colonial, Postcolonial, Judicial Structure, Panchayat, Judicial Practice

    (1) Riaz Ahmad Muazzmi
    Department of Anthropology, Qauid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Amir Zia
    Department of Pakistan Studies, Qauid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Ghyas Ahmad Muazzmi
    Department of Sociology, Qauid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Muazzmi, R. A., Zia, A., & Muazzmi, G. A. (2020). Lego-political Judicial Institution "Panchayat", A Journey from Colonial to Postcolonial Times. Global Anthropological Studies Review, III(I), 21-30. https://doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2020(III-I).03

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Muazzmi, Riaz Ahmad, Amir Zia, and Ghyas Ahmad Muazzmi. 2020. "Lego-political Judicial Institution "Panchayat", A Journey from Colonial to Postcolonial Times." Global Anthropological Studies Review, III (I): 21-30 doi: 10.31703/gasr.2020(III-I).03

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    HARVARD : MUAZZMI, R. A., ZIA, A. & MUAZZMI, G. A. 2020. Lego-political Judicial Institution "Panchayat", A Journey from Colonial to Postcolonial Times. Global Anthropological Studies Review, III, 21-30.

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    MHRA : Muazzmi, Riaz Ahmad, Amir Zia, and Ghyas Ahmad Muazzmi. 2020. "Lego-political Judicial Institution "Panchayat", A Journey from Colonial to Postcolonial Times." Global Anthropological Studies Review, III: 21-30

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    MLA : Muazzmi, Riaz Ahmad, Amir Zia, and Ghyas Ahmad Muazzmi. "Lego-political Judicial Institution "Panchayat", A Journey from Colonial to Postcolonial Times." Global Anthropological Studies Review, III.I (2020): 21-30 Print.

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    OXFORD : Muazzmi, Riaz Ahmad, Zia, Amir, and Muazzmi, Ghyas Ahmad (2020), "Lego-political Judicial Institution "Panchayat", A Journey from Colonial to Postcolonial Times", Global Anthropological Studies Review, III (I), 21-30

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    TURABIAN : Muazzmi, Riaz Ahmad, Amir Zia, and Ghyas Ahmad Muazzmi. "Lego-political Judicial Institution "Panchayat", A Journey from Colonial to Postcolonial Times." Global Anthropological Studies Review III, no. I (2020): 21-30. https://doi.org/10.31703/gasr.2020(III-I).03