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Human rights in postcolonial India

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New Delhi Routledge 2016Description: 331p xISBN:
  • 9781138120891
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.481000 DWI
Contents:
Table of contents; The State of Human Rights in Postcolonial India, 1947-2014: Postcolonial and Anti-Colonial Terrains Part I. Education and Social Value; 1. The Paradox and Promise of Children's Rights in Indian Schools; 2. Education as Empowerment? Gender and the Human Right to Education in Postcolonial India Part II. The Body and Autonomy; 3. Truth-Telling Techniques: The Aditi Sharma Case and the Implications for Human Rights in India; 4. Experiencing Torture and Human Rights Violations: Reflections on Self-Experience; 5. Writing Disability and Rights in Naseema Part III. Legal Subjectivity and Civil Rights; 6. Reflections on the Use of Fatal Force by the Indian State: Colonial and Postcolonial; 7. The Subject of Rights: Conflict Violence and Transitional Justice in India; 8. Gender, Politics, and Development in Rural India Part IV. Violence, Women, and the Girl-Child; 9. On a Different Footing: Has "Nirbhaya" Turned India Around? 10. Human Dignity and Social Justice: Locating Agency in Dalit Women in the Pudukkottai District of Tamil Nadu, India Part V. Negotiating Globalization and Capitalism; 11. What's Old Is New: How the West's Neoliberal Reforms Seek to Re-Enslave India ; 12. Free to be Gay": Same-Sex Relations in India, Globalized Homophobia and Globalized Gay Rights;
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Table of contents;
The State of Human Rights in Postcolonial India, 1947-2014: Postcolonial and Anti-Colonial Terrains Part I. Education and Social Value;
1. The Paradox and Promise of Children's Rights in Indian Schools;
2. Education as Empowerment? Gender and the Human Right to Education in Postcolonial India Part II. The Body and Autonomy;
3. Truth-Telling Techniques: The Aditi Sharma Case and the Implications for Human Rights in India;
4. Experiencing Torture and Human Rights Violations: Reflections on Self-Experience;
5. Writing Disability and Rights in Naseema Part III. Legal Subjectivity and Civil Rights;
6. Reflections on the Use of Fatal Force by the Indian State: Colonial and Postcolonial;
7. The Subject of Rights: Conflict Violence and Transitional Justice in India;
8. Gender, Politics, and Development in Rural India Part IV. Violence, Women, and the Girl-Child;
9. On a Different Footing: Has "Nirbhaya" Turned India Around?
10. Human Dignity and Social Justice: Locating Agency in Dalit Women in the Pudukkottai District of Tamil Nadu, India Part V. Negotiating Globalization and Capitalism;
11. What's Old Is New: How the West's Neoliberal Reforms Seek to Re-Enslave India ;
12. Free to be Gay": Same-Sex Relations in India, Globalized Homophobia and Globalized Gay Rights;

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