Human Rights In Postcolonial India

Author : Om Prakash Dwivedi,V. G. Julie Rajan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317310112

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Human Rights in Postcolonial India by Om Prakash Dwivedi,V. G. Julie Rajan Pdf

This volume looks at human rights in independent India through frameworks comparable to those in other postcolonial nations in the Global South. It examines wide-ranging issues that require immediate attention such as those related to disability, violence, torture, education, LGBT, neoliberalism, and social justice. The essays presented here explore the discourse surrounding human rights, and engage with aspects linked to the functioning of democracy, security and strategic matters, and terrorism, especially post 9/11. They also discuss cases connected with human rights violations in India and underline the need for a transparent approach and a more comprehensive perspective of India’s human rights record. Part of the series Ethics, Human Rights and Global Political Thought, the volume will be an important resource for academics, policy makers, civil society organisations, lawyers and those concerned with human rights. It will also be useful to scholars and researchers of Indian politics, law and sociology.

Author : Rahul Ranjan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000550269

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At the Crossroads of Rights by Rahul Ranjan Pdf

This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights. It highlights the ongoing struggles of the communities in postcolonial India that are confronted with the most brutal and unprecedented assault on their economic and sociocultural rights – often led by the political establishment. The contributions in this edited volume present multiple narratives of these struggles, theoretical inquiries into a diversity of political imaginations, and the intertwined changes in the legal and biophysical landscapes. These contributions speak to some of the most important contemporary debates within the human rights community that stands in the crossroads with rights of Indigenous Peoples and other members of subaltern groups. This volume will be of great value to scholars, students, and researchers interested in human rights politics, power, forest governance, and environmental movements in postcolonial India. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of Human Rights.

Author : Kanika Batra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000430127

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Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities by Kanika Batra Pdf

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and queer archives offer alternative histories of sexual precarity, vulnerability, and resistance. The book’s comparative focus on India, Jamaica, and South Africa extends the valences of postcolonial feminist and queer studies towards a historical examination of South-South interactions in the theory and praxis of sexual rights. Analyzing the circumstances of production and the contents of English-language and intermittently bilingual magazines and newsletters published between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, these sources offer a way to examine the convergences and divergences between postcolonial feminist, gay, and lesbian activism. It charts a set of concerns common to feminist, gay, and lesbian activist literature: retrogressive colonial-era legislation impacting the status of women and sexual minorities; a marked increase in sexual violence; piecemeal reproductive freedoms and sexual choice under neoliberalism; the emergence and management of the HIV/AIDS crisis; precariousness of lesbian and transgender concerns within feminist and LGBTQ+ movements; and Non-Governmental Organizations as major actors articulating sexual rights as human rights. This methodologically innovative work is based on archival historical research, analyses of national and international policy documents, close readings of activist publications, and conversations with activists and founding editors. This is an important intervention in the field of gender and sexuality studies and is the winner of the 2020 Feminist Futures, Subversive Histories prize in partnership with the NWSA. The book is key reading for scholars and students in gender, sexuality, comparative literature, and postcolonial studies. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Chowdhry Geeta,Sheila Nair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136527449

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Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations by Chowdhry Geeta,Sheila Nair Pdf

"Chowdhry and Nair, along with the authors of this volume, make a timely, vital, and deeply necessary intervention in international relations - one that informs theoretically, enriches our knowledge of the world through its narratives, and forces us to confront the differentiated wholeness of our humanity. Readers will want to emulate the skills and sensibilities they offer.." Naeem Inayatullah, Ithaca College This work uses postcolonial theory to examine the implications of race, class and gender relations for the structuring or world politics. It addresses further themes central to postcolonial theory, such as the impact of representation on power relations, the relationship between global capital and power and the space for resistance and agency in the context of global power asymmetries.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317809098

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Writing Wrongs by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

This book examines the ‘cultural apparatus’ of Human Rights in India today. It unravels discourses of victimhood, oppression, suffering and witnessing through a study of autobiographies, memoirs, reportage and media coverage, and documentaries. Moving across multiple media and genres for their representations of Dalits, riot victims, prisoners, abused and abandoned women and children, examining the formal properties of victim texts for their documentation of trauma, and analyzing the role of the sympathetic imagination, Writing Wrongs inaugurates a whole new field in literary–cultural studies by focusing on the narratives that build the culture of Human Rights. It argues for taking this cultural apparatus as essential to the political and legal dimensions of Human Rights. The book emphasizes the need for an ethical turn to literary–cultural studies and a cultural turn to Human Rights studies, arguing that a public culture of Human Rights has a key role to play in revitalizing civil society and its institutions. It will be of interest to Human Rights scholars and activists, and those in political science, sociology, literary and cultural studies, narrative theory and psychology.

Author : Ratna Kapur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135310530

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Erotic Justice by Ratna Kapur Pdf

The essays in Erotic Justice address the ways in which law has been implicated in contemporary debates dealing with sexuality, culture and `different' subjects - including women, sexual minorities, Muslims and the transnational migrant. Law is analyzed as a discursive terrain, where these different subjects are excluded or included in the postcolonial present on terms that are reminiscent of the colonial encounter and its treatment of difference. Bringing a postcolonial feminist legal analysis to her discussion, Kapur is relentless in her critiques on how colonial discourses, cultural essentialism, and victim rhetoric are reproduced in universal, liberal projects such as human rights and international law, as well as in the legal regulation of sexuality and culture in a postcolonial context. Drawing her examples from postcolonial India, Ratna Kapur demonstrates the theoretical and disruptive possibilities that the postcolonial subject brings to international law, human rights, and domestic law. In the process, challenges are offered to the political and theoretical constructions of the nation, sexuality, cultural authenticity, and women's subjectivity.

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137504326

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Human Rights and Literature by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations. Examining violated bodies and subjects, the settings and environments in which these are embedded and the witnessing of atrocities, it considers how the ‘subject’ (or ‘person’ of Human Rights) emerges within fiction or poetry. Structured so as to move outward from the individual body to the world, the study progresses from the preconditions or settings for Human Rights violations through to atrocity, from witnessing to the making of a specific kind of public around traumatic recall. It addresses representations of destroyed corporeality and subjectivity, the violations and dissolution of the subject and the construction of trauma-memory citizenship to the making of communities of mourning. Through a broad study of texts from different genres, this text reveals how Literature both documents the basic human aspirations of happiness, security and hope, but also the limitations and the violations of these aspirations.

Author : U. N. Gupta
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 8126903783

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The Human Rights by U. N. Gupta Pdf

The Present Book The Human Rights Is An Indepth-Systematized Study Of Recent Developments, Particularly Since 1970S, In The International Concern For Promotion And Protection Of Basic Human Rights Within And Beyond National Boundaries. This Has Been Necessitated By Tremendous Growth And Taking Place Of A Good Number Of International Treaties, Conventions, Declarations And Practices Which Are Not Noticed In Books Though These Are Actually Followed By The States, And To Varying Extent These Are Enforced By The Concerned International, Regional Or National Authorities. In Many Cases, These Developments In Favour Of Human Rights For People Are Now Integral Part Of International Law And Form Part Of International Diplomacy, International Relations Or International Politics. Respect For Human Rights Is Now Regarded As Good Or Ideal National Politics World Over: It Is Also Part Of Active Diplomacy. The Book Proceeds To Enlighten The Readers On The Various Ramifications Of The Subject Through The Following Chapters:" Discovering A Human Rights Regime " The Footprints Of Human Rights" Nationality And Statelessness: Human Rights Problems " Civil And Political Human Rights " Human Rights Of Political Offenders " Human Rights: Economic, Social And Cultural " Humanitarian Commitment For Women And Children " Asylum For International Refugees " Humanized War And WarfareAs The Issue Of Human Rights Is Upper Most In Idology And Functioning Of Modern Polity, Care Has Been Taken To Incorporate The Needs Of State Policy Makers, Politicians, Reformers And Scholars Of International Law And International Relations, Among Others. The Indian Laws And Practices On Various Aspects Of Human Rights That Bring Them In Line With The Expectations Of International Law And Practices Have Been Provided In Detail In The Book. The Book Will Also Find Favour With Academics, Social Activists And All Those Responsible Citizens Concerned For Human Rights Denial Or Suffering On Any Account In Any Section Of The Society.

Author : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822330482

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The Scandal of the State by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Pdf

Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.

Author : A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479356

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Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics by A. Dirk Moses,Marco Duranti,Roland Burke Pdf

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination during decolonization.

Author : Dr. Robinson Jose. K.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359907656

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HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN POST-INDEPENDENT INDIA : KERALA SCENARIO by Dr. Robinson Jose. K. Pdf

Author : Srirupa Roy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822389910

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Beyond Belief by Srirupa Roy Pdf

Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state. Roy argues that the postcolonial nation-state is consolidated not, as many have asserted, by efforts to imagine a shared cultural community, but rather by the production of a recognizable and authoritative identity for the state. This project—of making the state the entity identified as the nation’s authoritative representative—emphasizes the natural cultural diversity of the nation and upholds the state as the sole unifier or manager of the “naturally” fragmented nation; the state is unified through diversity. Roy considers several different ways that identification with the Indian nation-state was produced and consolidated during the 1950s and 1960s. She looks at how the Films Division of India, a state-owned documentary and newsreel production agency, allowed national audiences to “see the state”; how the “unity in diversity” formation of nationhood was reinforced in commemorations of India’s annual Republic Day; and how the government produced a policy discourse claiming that scientific development was the ultimate national need and the most pressing priority for the state to address. She also analyzes the fate of the steel towns—industrial townships built to house the workers of nationalized steel plants—which were upheld as the exemplary national spaces of the new India. By prioritizing the role of actual manifestations of and encounters with the state, Roy moves beyond theories of nationalism and state formation based on collective belief.

Author : J. K. Das
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 8176482439

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Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples by J. K. Das Pdf

The Book Explores The Evolution And Recognition Of Law, At The Domestic And International Levels, Related To Indigenous Peoples New Dominated By Others.

Author : Rina Verma Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064226397

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Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws by Rina Verma Williams Pdf

Placing the contemporary discussion on personal laws in India in historical perspective, this important book views the debate as a critical component of Indian democracy. Balancing the imperatives of multiculturalism, national integration, and gender justice, it affirms that there is a complex continuity between the terms of the debate in the postcolonial Indian state and its colonial counterpart.

Author : Asish Kumar Das,Prasanta Kumar Mohanty
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 8176257958

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Human Rights in India by Asish Kumar Das,Prasanta Kumar Mohanty Pdf