Debolina Dutta, "A Jurisprudence of Conversations: Law, Life and Feminism in Post-colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the

emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model

of innovative legal research. The book inaugurates a creative practice

of scholarly activism that engages a new way of thinking about law and

feminist jurisprudence, one that is geared to acknowledge and take

responsibility for the hierarchies in Indian academic practices. Its

method of conversation and accountability continues the feminist

tradition of taking reciprocity and the time and place of collaboration

seriously. It helps make visible the specific ties between post-colonial

life and law and joins the work of refusing and reimagining the

hierarchical formation of legal knowledge in a caste-based Indian

society. A significant contribution to the history and practice of