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Human rights, India and the West / edited by Ashwani Peetush and Jay Drydyk. - First edition. - viii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN: 9780199453528 0199453527

Source: Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

LCCN: 2015358795

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB575145 bnb

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights--India.
Human rights.
Human rights.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India.

LC Class. No.: JC599.I4 / H87 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 323.0954