Debating Difference
Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India
Seiten
2011
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-806750-4 (ISBN)
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-806750-4 (ISBN)
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This book presents the first systematic account of the structure of public reasoning over group rights in India. It critiques both liberal and post-colonial narratives and constructs a framework that combines their insights for an empirical study of the norms of group rights in the country.
How can inequalities between groups be addressed, while at the same time sustaining common citizenship? Debating Difference offers a new approach to this key question for liberal democracies, demonstrating that argument and debate is crucial for reconciling the demands of group equality and civic unity. India offers a unique case of group-differentiated rights. Using landmark constitutional and legislative debates on minority rights and quotas, Rochana
Bajpai develops a model for interpreting post-Independence group rights that hinges on the interplay between five principal normative concepts; secularism, democracy, social justice, national unity, and development. Tracing the shifting meanings of these values over time, this book demonstrates that liberal and
democratic concepts are more sophisticated and widely shared in the Indian polity than is commonly believed. The author identifies the limits of Western-centric accounts of multiculturalism. She also establishes the signifi cance of political rhetoric for explanations of policy shifts and political change.
How can inequalities between groups be addressed, while at the same time sustaining common citizenship? Debating Difference offers a new approach to this key question for liberal democracies, demonstrating that argument and debate is crucial for reconciling the demands of group equality and civic unity. India offers a unique case of group-differentiated rights. Using landmark constitutional and legislative debates on minority rights and quotas, Rochana
Bajpai develops a model for interpreting post-Independence group rights that hinges on the interplay between five principal normative concepts; secularism, democracy, social justice, national unity, and development. Tracing the shifting meanings of these values over time, this book demonstrates that liberal and
democratic concepts are more sophisticated and widely shared in the Indian polity than is commonly believed. The author identifies the limits of Western-centric accounts of multiculturalism. She also establishes the signifi cance of political rhetoric for explanations of policy shifts and political change.
Rochana Bajpai is Lecturer, Department of Politics, SOAS, University of London.
PART ONE: THE MOMENT OF CONTAINMENT;; PART TWO: THE MOMENT OF CRISIS: 1986, 1990
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 222 mm |
| Gewicht | 584 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-806750-X / 019806750X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-806750-4 / 9780198067504 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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