SOAS Research Online

Book Chapters

Sharma, Kanika and Lammasniemi, Laura (2024) 'Age of Marriage Act 1929.' In: Auchmuty, Rosemary, Rackley, Erika and Takayanagi, Mari, (eds.), Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for Want of Trying. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 189-196.

Sharma, Kanika (2023) 'The rule of law and racial difference in the British Empire.' In: Wheatle, Se-shauna and O’Loughlin, Elizabeth, (eds.), Diverse Voices in Public Law. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 15-34.

Sharma, Kanika (2020) 'Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case.' In: Bonnerjee, Samraghni, (ed.), Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies. London: Routledge. (Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality)

Sharma, Kanika (2015) 'Spectacular Justice: Aesthetics and Power in the Gandhi Murder Trial.' In: Allo, Awol, (ed.), The Courtroom as a Space of Resistance. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 323-343. (Critical Studies in Jurisprudence)

Sharma, Kanika (2011) 'A Symbol of State Power: Use of the Red Fort in Indian Political Trials.' In: Foley, Aoife Padraigin, (ed.), Ethics, Evil, Law and the State: State Power and Political Evil. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.

Journal Article

Sharma, Kanika (2023) 'The ‘Vulnerable’ Hindu Woman, Love-jihad, and the Indian Courts: The Hadiya Case - Commentary on Asokan KM vs State of Kerala (2017) 2 KLJ 974.' Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 56 (1). pp. 59-69.

Sharma, Kanika, Lammasniemi, Laura and Sarkar, Tanika (2021) 'Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India.' Indian Law Review, 5 (3). pp. 265-287.

Lammasniemi, Laura and Sharma, Kanika (2021) 'Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century.' Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47 (1). pp. 67-84.

Sharma, Kanika (2020) 'Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight.' Law and History Review, 38 (1). pp. 151-175.

Rossi, Federica and Sharma, Kanika (2018) 'Introduction: Objects of Memory and Rituals of Memorialisation as Fields of Struggle.' The London Journal of Critical Thought, 2 (1). pp. 21-26.

Sharma, Kanika (2018) 'Mother India: The Role of the Maternal Figure in Establishing Legal Subjectivity.' Law and Critique, 29 (1). pp. 1-29.

Book Reviews

Sharma, Kanika (2022) 'Colonial courts, judicial iconography and the Indian semiotic register.' Law and Humanities, 16 (2). pp. 331-336.

Sharma, Kanika (2019) 'Máiréad Enright, Julie McCandless and Aoife O’Donoghue (eds.): Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges’ Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity.' Feminist Legal Studies, 27 (3). pp. 351-356.

Sharma, Kanika (2013) 'Review of: Wing-Cheong Chan, Barry Wright, Stanley Yeo (eds): Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform.' International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 26 (4). pp. 957-962.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Sharma, Kanika and Chaudhari, Zuleikha (2022) Re: Staging the Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar (1858). Take on Art [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]