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

Contributor(s): Peetush, Ashwani, ed | Drydyk, Jay, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015Description: viii, 350 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780199453528Subject(s): Human rights | Western countriesDDC classification: 323.0954

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	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) General Book Section	323.0954 PEE/H (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P41585

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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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