Description: Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India Author: Rochana Bajpai Title: Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India Publication: Oxford University Press, 2015 Description: Paperback. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (5.62 x 0.78 x 8.61) Includes a bibliography and index. 340 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. New. 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. Seller ID: 201680 Subject: Asia, Global Politics The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Rochana Bajpai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year Printed: 2015
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Language: English
