Book review: Vernacular rights cultures: the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice by Sumi Madhok

In Vernacular Rights Cultures, Sumi Madhok challenges dominant understandings of human rights by exploring how subaltern groups mobilise for justice through particular political imaginaries, conceptual vocabularies and gendered political struggles. Combining theoretical discussion and ethnographic research with a commitment to decolonial praxis, this rewarding book will be of great interest to scholars and students of decolonial and postcolonial theory, anthropology, South Asia and human rights, writes Moritz Koenig. Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice. Sumi Madhok. Cambridge University Press. 2021.