This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery.
This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery.
Nafisa Shah is a member of the National Assembly, the Lower House of the Parliament of Pakistan. Shah began her public life as a journalist, later studying social and cultural anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford, where she received her D.Phil in 2011.
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List of Figures, Maps and Tables Preface Acknowledgements Note on Sindhi Language and Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Honour Violence, Law and Power in Upper Sindh PART I: A FRONTIER OF HONOUR VIOLENCE - THE PROBLEM OF KARO KARI IN UPPER SINDH Chapter 1. Ghairat, Karo kari and the Spectacles of Violence: How Men and Women Become Black Chapter 2. Honour Violence, Law and Moral Power in Colonial Sindh PART II: HONOUR, MORAL POWER AND LAW - MIRRORING OF LAW IN THE FORMS OF VIOLENCE Chapter 3. Karo kari, Wali and Family Violence: Cultural Violence Mirroring Law Chapter 4. Violence, Kin Groups and the Feud: The Making of Frontier Justice PART III: NORMALISING VIOLENCE - THE EVERY DAY WORLD OF UPPER SINDH Chapter 5. Mediations on the Frontier: Ceremonies of Justice, Ceremonies of Faislo and the Ideology of Kheerkhandr Chapter 6. The Criminal Justice and 'Legal' Contests of Honour: Two Case Studies Chapter 7. The Sound of the Silence: Lives, Narratives and Strategies of Runaway and Missing Women of Upper Sindh Conclusion Appendices Appendix I: The Sindh Frontier Regulation, 1872 Appendix II: Text of the Provisions of Qisas and Diyat including subsequent Amendments Appendix IIIa: Disposal of Karo Kari Cases from 1995-2004 Appendix IIIb: A Sample with Details Showing Relationship of the Victim, Accused and Complainant Glossary Bibliography
List of Figures, Maps and Tables Preface Acknowledgements Note on Sindhi Language and Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Honour Violence, Law and Power in Upper Sindh PART I: A FRONTIER OF HONOUR VIOLENCE - THE PROBLEM OF KARO KARI IN UPPER SINDH Chapter 1. Ghairat, Karo kari and the Spectacles of Violence: How Men and Women Become Black Chapter 2. Honour Violence, Law and Moral Power in Colonial Sindh PART II: HONOUR, MORAL POWER AND LAW - MIRRORING OF LAW IN THE FORMS OF VIOLENCE Chapter 3. Karo kari, Wali and Family Violence: Cultural Violence Mirroring Law Chapter 4. Violence, Kin Groups and the Feud: The Making of Frontier Justice PART III: NORMALISING VIOLENCE - THE EVERY DAY WORLD OF UPPER SINDH Chapter 5. Mediations on the Frontier: Ceremonies of Justice, Ceremonies of Faislo and the Ideology of Kheerkhandr Chapter 6. The Criminal Justice and 'Legal' Contests of Honour: Two Case Studies Chapter 7. The Sound of the Silence: Lives, Narratives and Strategies of Runaway and Missing Women of Upper Sindh Conclusion Appendices Appendix I: The Sindh Frontier Regulation, 1872 Appendix II: Text of the Provisions of Qisas and Diyat including subsequent Amendments Appendix IIIa: Disposal of Karo Kari Cases from 1995-2004 Appendix IIIb: A Sample with Details Showing Relationship of the Victim, Accused and Complainant Glossary Bibliography
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