Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India - Couverture souple

Bajpai, Rochana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199453373 ISBN 13 : 9780199453375

Editeur : OUP India, 2016

Synopsis

India is an outstanding example of multiculturalism, with wide-ranging policies of group preference dating back to the colonial period. This book presents the first systematic account of the structure of public reasoning over group rights primarily focusing on the landmark constitutional and legislative debates in the late 1940s and late 1980s. While the former saw a centralization of power, the latter marked a decentering of power in the Indian polity.

The author focuses, exclusively, on shifts in political discourses, even as she simultaneously illuminates the political events and junctures in which these are located. Through an analytical interpretation of the Constituent Assembly (1946-9), Shah Bano (1986) and Mandal (1990, 2006) debates, this book constructs a conceptual framework within which Indian arguments over group rights can be understood and evaluated. It argues that the interplay between five principal ideals -secularism, democracy, social justice, national unity and development-has framed political debate in India.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Rochana Bajpai is Lecturer, Department of Politics, SOAS, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199453373
• ISBN 13: 9780199453375
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 340
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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