Discourse on Rights in India: Debates and Dilemmas

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Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: discourse on rights in India: debates and dilemmas
PART I
Theorizing rights: diversity and difference
	1	Dimensions of power and social transformation
	2	Constitutionalizing rights, negotiating difference: the Indian experiment
	3	Gender, rights and the justice gap: going beyond the politics of difference
	4	Law, rights and politics: dilemmas and responses
	5 Human rights, climate change and climate justice
	6 What can human rights add to the fight against corruption? Some lessons from India
PART II
Gender, religion, family, work, caste and community: issues and contestations
	7	Sex-selective abortion and reproductive rights: a syncretic feminist approach
	8	Bodily rights and agency: looking at the rights discourse of women in prostitution
	9 Women in politics and the subject of reservations
	10	The triple talaq controversy: gender concerns and minority safeguards
	11 Women and disability: issues of care
PART III
The ‘myth’ of conflicting rights: a critique of the Indian state
	12	India’s education policy and failures of empathy
	13	The ‘right’ music: caste and ‘classical’ music in south India
	14	The trajectories of work, sexuality and citizenship: the rights of the transgender in India
	15	People and the terrains: PESA reconsidered
	16 Dilemmas in Kashmir: a human rights perspective
	17 Beyond conclusions: discourse on rights in India: a case for reflective autonomy
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