Human rights : India and the West / edited by Ashwani Peetush and Jay Drydyk.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 350 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780199453528 (hbk.)
0199453527 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

323.0954 HUM 23 008829

Contents:

Introduction / Ashwani Peetush and Jay Drydyk -- Rights and relativity / Sonia Sikka -- Ethical naturalism and human rights / Nigel DeSouza -- Two concepts of overlapping consensus / Jay Drydyk -- Developmentalism, human rights, and gender politics: from a politics of origins to a politics of meanings / Sumi Madhok -- Human moral obligations, Dharma, and human rights / Shashi Motilal -- Autonomy and human rights in ancient and modern Indian Buddhism / Gordon Davis -- Human rights, Indian philosophy, and Patañjali / Shyam Ranganathan -- Human rights and political toleration in India: mulitplicity, self, and interconnectedness / Ashwani Peetush -- Rights of man : a Gandhian intervention / Bindu Puri -- Invoking human rights : Dalits and the politics of caste violence in Gujarat / Gopika Solani -- State as religious gatkeeper : human rights, resistance, and Indian anti-conversion laws / Amar Khoday -- Right to have rights : taking Hannah Arendt to India/ Niraja Gopal Jayal

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	323.0954 HUM 008829 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008829

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ashwani Peetush and Jay Drydyk --
Rights and relativity / Sonia Sikka --
Ethical naturalism and human rights / Nigel DeSouza --
Two concepts of overlapping consensus / Jay Drydyk --
Developmentalism, human rights, and gender politics: from a politics of origins to a politics of meanings / Sumi Madhok --
Human moral obligations, Dharma, and human rights / Shashi Motilal --
Autonomy and human rights in ancient and modern Indian Buddhism / Gordon Davis --
Human rights, Indian philosophy, and Patañjali / Shyam Ranganathan --
Human rights and political toleration in India: mulitplicity, self, and interconnectedness / Ashwani Peetush --
Rights of man : a Gandhian intervention / Bindu Puri --
Invoking human rights : Dalits and the politics of caste violence in Gujarat / Gopika Solani --
State as religious gatkeeper : human rights, resistance, and Indian anti-conversion laws / Amar Khoday --
Right to have rights : taking Hannah Arendt to India/ Niraja Gopal Jayal

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