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9 J. Indian L. & Soc'y VII (2018)

handle is hein.journals/jindlas9 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF INDIAN LAW AND SOCIETY Volume IX 2018 FOREWORD Writing a foreword for a Volume of the Journal of Indian Law and Society in the time of a pandemic is an interesting task which gives me an opportunity to be a little philosophical about the Journal and its aim. In recent times, when capitalism has emerged as the sovereign ideology outlawing any other thought and ideology, there is a concerted effort to write an obituary of social sciences. A sin- gularity of thought process which is conducive to the market has been promoted at the cost of marginal views. But the COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the significance of interdependence of humans, nation states and various academic disciplines. It has also underscored the importance of interdisciplinary approaches. While science will surely provide an answer to this global health emergency, social sciences will remain important to point out that opaqueness, democratic deficit and lack of fundamental freedoms breed famines and epidemics. The Journal of Indian Law and Society premises itself on this interdiscipli- nary approach. It also reflects on the relationship between law and society as the law does not work in a vacuum and society is not merely a passive recipient of the law but also it creates and shapes the law in various forms. In this light, we pres- ent this issue of our Journal where we have covered myriad issues which concern law and society in various forms. Ditilekha Sharma explores the normativity of Indian citizenship and locus of transgender persons within this normative structure. This normativity in the idea of Indian citizenship has produced an exclusion of transgender persons from this very idea of citizenship. The author asserts that is only after the NALSA judg- ment the transgender identity is duly recognised. This judgment has also created

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