Human Rights

India and the West

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9780199453528

Publication date:

27/04/2015

Hardback

352 pages

216.0x140.0mm

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ISBN:

9780199453528

Publication date:

27/04/2015

Hardback

352 pages

216.0x140.0mm

First Edition

Ashwani Peetush & Jay Drydyk

The subject of human rights in a pluralistic world is critical. Drawing on the vast traditions of India and the West, this volume is unique in providing interdisciplinary essays that range from theoretical, philosophical, normative, social, legal, and political issues in the conceptualization and application of a truly global understanding of human rights. While previous literature stops short at asking how Western understandings may be articulated in non-Western cultures, the essays here furthermore examine what the West may have to learn from Indian understandings.

Suitable for: Primary market:  university departments of political science, sociology, law, history, philosophy, anthropology, religion studies, development studies, South Asian studies Secondary market:  students, teachers and research scholars engaging with the subjects mentioned above; think tanks; policymakers; NGOs; social activists; judges and lawyers  

Rights:  World Rights

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Description

The idea of human rights has raised both hope and concern. The hope is for universality, that every person matters, and matters equally, and therefore that everyone has equal rights. The concern is that human rights are a Trojan horse concealing implicit attacks on non-Western cultures and values. Even though a delegate from India was included in the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Western thinking was regarded as the paradigm, and only a minority of the countries that now exist voted on the Declaration in 1948. An important contribution to resolving this conflict can be made by exploring the insights and rich resources offered for an intercultural understanding of human rights that come from India. This volume offers pioneering essays that approach the question from theoretical, social, legal and political perspectives, contributing to a global understanding of human rights. The contributors develop new methodologies for examining what all may learn—including the West—from Indian articulations of human rights.  

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Table of contents


Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Diacritical Marks
Introduction

      PART I THEORETICAL ISSUES

1.    Rights and Relativity
Sonia Sikka

2.    Ethical Naturalism and Human Rights
Nigel DeSouza

3.    Two Concepts of Overlapping Consensus
Jay Drydyk

4.    Developmentalism, Human Rights, and Gender Politics: From a Politics of Origins to a Politics of Meanings
Sumi Madhok 

PART II NORMATIVE SOURCES AND INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS

5.    Human Moral Obligations, Dharma, and Human Rights
Shashi Motilal

6.    Autonomy and Human Rights in Ancient and Modern Indian Buddhism
Gordon Davis

7.    Human Rights, Indian Philosophy, and  Patañjali 
Shyam Ranganathan
8.    Human Rights, Justice and Political Toleration in India: Multiplicity, Self, and Interconnectedness
Ashwani Peetush

PART III SOCIAL PRACTICES AND APPLIED CONTEXTS

9.    The Rights of Man: A Gandhian Intervention
Bindu Puri

10.    Invoking Human Rights: Dalits and the Politics of Caste Violence in Gujarat
Gopika Solanki

11.    The State as Religious Gatekeeper: Human Rights, Resistance, and Indian Anti-Conversion Laws
Amar Khoday

12.    The Rights to Have Rights: Taking Hannah Arendt to India
Niraja Gopal Jayal

Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors
 

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Features

  • 1.
  • A book first of its kind, it provides an intercultural understanding of human rights drawing on vast Indian traditions, engaging theoretical discussions as well as analysing the contexts for their application. 2.
  • The work is highly interdisciplinary in nature—relevant for several subjects and disciplines such as political science, sociology, law, history, philosophy, anthropology, religion studies, development studies, and South Asian studies. 3.
  • The essays do not simply ask how to articulate and support Western understandings of human rights from Indian sources (much of the past literature on non-Western understanding of human rights does this); rather, they also ask what the West can learn from Indian understandings of human rights. 4.
  • The contributors bring in different critical perspectives from the different disciplines they come from.

Human Rights View larger

First Edition

Ashwani Peetush & Jay Drydyk

Human Rights View larger

First Edition

Ashwani Peetush & Jay Drydyk

Description

The idea of human rights has raised both hope and concern. The hope is for universality, that every person matters, and matters equally, and therefore that everyone has equal rights. The concern is that human rights are a Trojan horse concealing implicit attacks on non-Western cultures and values. Even though a delegate from India was included in the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Western thinking was regarded as the paradigm, and only a minority of the countries that now exist voted on the Declaration in 1948. An important contribution to resolving this conflict can be made by exploring the insights and rich resources offered for an intercultural understanding of human rights that come from India. This volume offers pioneering essays that approach the question from theoretical, social, legal and political perspectives, contributing to a global understanding of human rights. The contributors develop new methodologies for examining what all may learn—including the West—from Indian articulations of human rights.  

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Table of contents


Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration and Diacritical Marks
Introduction

      PART I THEORETICAL ISSUES

1.    Rights and Relativity
Sonia Sikka

2.    Ethical Naturalism and Human Rights
Nigel DeSouza

3.    Two Concepts of Overlapping Consensus
Jay Drydyk

4.    Developmentalism, Human Rights, and Gender Politics: From a Politics of Origins to a Politics of Meanings
Sumi Madhok 

PART II NORMATIVE SOURCES AND INTELLECTUAL TRADITIONS

5.    Human Moral Obligations, Dharma, and Human Rights
Shashi Motilal

6.    Autonomy and Human Rights in Ancient and Modern Indian Buddhism
Gordon Davis

7.    Human Rights, Indian Philosophy, and  Patañjali 
Shyam Ranganathan
8.    Human Rights, Justice and Political Toleration in India: Multiplicity, Self, and Interconnectedness
Ashwani Peetush

PART III SOCIAL PRACTICES AND APPLIED CONTEXTS

9.    The Rights of Man: A Gandhian Intervention
Bindu Puri

10.    Invoking Human Rights: Dalits and the Politics of Caste Violence in Gujarat
Gopika Solanki

11.    The State as Religious Gatekeeper: Human Rights, Resistance, and Indian Anti-Conversion Laws
Amar Khoday

12.    The Rights to Have Rights: Taking Hannah Arendt to India
Niraja Gopal Jayal

Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors
 

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