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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015Copyright date: �2015Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199453528
  • 0199453527
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.0954 23
LOC classification:
  • JC599.I4 H87 2015
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 Pata�njali / 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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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 Pata�njali / 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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