Discourse on rights in India : debates and dilemma /: debates and dilemma. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bijayalaxmi Nanda, Nupur Ray.
• Editors: Nanda, Bijayalaxmi; Ray, Nupur
• Contents: Contributors Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Discourse on Rights in India: Debates and Dilemmas Bijayalaxmi Nanda and Nupur Ray Part I: Theorizing Rights: Diversity and Difference Chapter 1 Dimensions of Power and Social Transformation Manoranjan Mohanty Chapter 2 Constitutionalizing Rights, Negotiating Difference: The Indian Experiment Ashok Acharya Chapter 3 Gender, Rights and the Justice Gap: Going Beyond the Politics of Difference Vidhu Verma Chapter 4 Law, Rights and Politics: Dilemmas and Responses Anita Tagore Chapter 5 Human Rights, Climate Change and Climate Justice Brooke Ackerly Chapter 6 What can Human Rights add to the Fight against Corruption? Some Lessons from India Mitu Sengupta Part II: Gender, Religion, Family, Work, Caste and Community: Issues and Contestations Chapter 7 Sex-Selective Abortion and Reproductive Rights: A Syncretic Feminist Approach Bijayalaxmi Nanda Chapter 8 Bodily Rights and Agency: Looking at the Rights Discourse of Women in Prostitution Nupur Ray Chapter 9 Women in Politics and the Subject of Representations Mary E. John Chapter 10 The Triple Talaq Controversy: Gender Concerns and Minority Safeguards Flavia Agnes Chapter 11 Women and Disability: Issues of Care Anita Ghai Part III: The ‘Myth’ of Conflicting Rights: A Critique of the Indian State Chapter 12 India’s Education Policy and Failures of Empathy Harsh Mander Chapter 13 The ‘Right’ Music: Caste and ‘Classical’ Music in South India Krishna Menon Chapter 14 The Trajectories of Work, Sexuality and Citizenship: The Rights of the Transgender in India Skylab Sahu Chapter 15 People and the Terrains: PESA Reconsidered Ajay Dandekar Chapter 16 Dilemmas in Kashmir: A Human Rights Perspective Simple Mohanty Beyond Conclusions: Discourse on Rights in India: A Case for Reflective Autonomy Bijayalaxmi Nanda and Nupur Ray Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 323.0954; Civil rights -- India
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429827143; 9780429827150; 9780429827136; 9780429448256
• Related ISBNs: 9781138056244
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