Human rights: India and the west/ edited by Ashwani Peetush and Jay Drydyk. - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015. - viii, 350 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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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