Kanika Sharma wins the Indian Law Review Best Article Prize
Kanika Sharma, Senior Lecturer in Law, has won the prestigious Indian Law Review Best Article Prize 2021 for her article ‘Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai (1886) ILR 10 Bom 301: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India' written alongside Laura Lammasniemi (University of Warwick) and Tanika Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India).
The article is part of the Indian Feminist Judgments Project which seeks to rewrite important Indian legal judgments from a feminist lens while using the legal resources available at the time. The authors offer a social and legal history of Rukhmabai’s famous defence against her husband’s suit for restitution of conjugal rights before assuming the role of judges and offering a feminist judgment for the original case (1886).
The prize sub-committee described the article as:
“An excellent and exceptionally well-structured paper, which sets out its original contribution in very clear terms. The feminist methodology is engaging, and the interdisciplinary framework provides commendable depth and richness to your analysis. This article provides a strong model for feminist adjudication in India and elsewhere.”
