Introduction : The Legal Pluralism Perspective / Maarten Bavinck and Amalendu Jyotishi -- Law-breakers and Law-makers : Critical Legal Pluralism, Normative Subjects and Ecological Regimes in India / D. Parthasarathy -- The Godavarman Judgment : Erasing the Plurality of Land Use in Gudalur, Nilgiris / Ajit Menon -- Unearthing the Roots of Statutory Forest Law : Iron Smelting and the State in Pre- and Early-Colonial India / Sashi Sivramkrishna and Amalendu Jyotishi -- Land, Law and Resistance : Legal Pluralism and Tribal Conflicts over Land Alienation in Odisha / Satyapriya Rout -- Community Rights and Statutory Laws : Politics of Forest in Uttarakhand, Himalayas / Pampa Mukherjee -- Handling fishery conflicts in the context of legal pluralism : a case-study analysis of street-level bureaucracy in Tamil Nadu, India / Maarten Bavinck -- A political ecology of legal plural disconnection in the marine fishery of Junagadh District, Gujarat, India / Derek Johnson -- Institutional Pluralism, Multilevel Arrangements and Polycentricism : The Case of Chilika Lagoon, India / Prateep Kumar Nayak -- Legal pluralism and the governability of fisheries and coastal systems in the world : a conceptual enquiry / Svein Jentoft.