This essay explores the inseparability of sexual violence and dominant-caste privileges embedded in structures of local power, which are finally nested within the legal institutions of the State. This essay examines the court transcripts of the trial of a village lynchpin, Gobinda Nandi, on the charge of rape. The individual to bring in the charges was a 20-year-old woman by the name of Genubala. The essay lays out the internal dynamics of the low-caste Bagdi community, as its members confront the rapist who controlled most of the village sources of livelihood. The essay turns on the refusal of the aggrieved Genubala and her husband Pashupati’s refusal to abide by Bagdi community’s unhappy decision to opt for a compromise with Gobinda Nandi. The political economy of the village power structure marks the aggrieved couple’s deliberate choice to approach legal institutions and the judicial process of the state as the crucial moment of departure from the communitarian redistributive justice and its specific life-world. But what does this choice imply for the two highly vulnerable individuals who are reluctant to be part of the Bagdi community, and who are seeking to activate the Indian State’s judicial system in their favour?

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孟加拉村庄的性别，社区和性暴力：1948年

本文探讨了嵌入地方权力结构中的性暴力和统治者特权的不可分割性，这些特权最终嵌套在国家法律机构之内。本文研究了对一个强奸案的村民戈宾达·南迪审判的法庭笔录。提起诉讼的个人是名叫Genubala的20岁妇女。这篇文章阐述了低种姓的巴迪社区的内部动态，因为该社区的成员面对着控制着大多数乡村生计来源的强奸犯。这篇文章是关于委屈的Genubala拒绝和她的丈夫Pashupati拒绝遵守Bagdi社区选择与Gobinda Nandi妥协的不愉快决定的拒绝。村级权力结构的政治经济学标志着这对受屈的夫妇有意选择诉诸法律制度和国家司法程序，这是脱离社区重新分配正义及其特定生活世界的关键时刻。但是，对于两个不愿加入巴格迪社区的高度脆弱的人来说，这意味着什么？他​​们正在寻求有利于激活印度国家司法系统的这两个选择？