Human Rights in India : An Analytical Perspectives
Contents: Preface. 1. Human rights: concept and the problems of promotion/Sanjay Gupta. 2. Understanding human rights in contemporary times/R.N. Prasad and Lalhmanmawia. 3. Violation of human rights in MIzoram: an experiences/Lalrintluanga. 4. Human rights and citizens access to information/Jaytilak Guha Roy. 5. Human rights under the Indian constitutional framework: an overview/Akhileshwar Prasad Singh. 6. Human rights: the concept, indicators and concerns/S.K. Singh. 7. Human rights and the police in an urban setting: some empirical insights from Delhi/Rajvir Sharma. 8. Economic reforms and their impacts on constitution and human rights/R.N. Prasad. 9. Domestic violence against women and their human rights/R.N. Prasad. 10. Human rights education: perceptions of learners/G. Sudarshanan and G. Haragopal. 11. Children: their rights and plight/Subhash C. Arora and Jagbir Singh. 12. Future goals of governance for twenty first century: administrative, social and economic/R.N. Prasad. 13. Human rights and law and order agencies in Mizoram/Lalneihzovi. 14. Indian state and the human rights of the poor/R.N. Prasad. 15. The Indian state and human rights in North East India/B.J. Deb. 16. Protection of human rights and judiciary/M. Venkat Reddy, V. Ram Chandran, Manohar Rao Puppla and Vijaya Chandra Tenneti. 17. Gandhian approach to social defence of the under privileged/S. Narayan Samy. 18. India and human rights: emerging realities/N.S. Gehlot. 19. International concern with human rights: a Gandhian view/Kamesh Kumar and Priti Kashyap. 20.The problematique of human rights administration in India/S.P. Srivastava. 21. The NGO linkage of national human rights commission/C.R. Prasad Rao. 22. Good governance: human rights perspective/G. Haragopal. 23. Bureaucracy, rule of law and human rights/G. Haragopal. 24. Mizo national front insurgency, counter insurgency measures and human rights/C. Lalhmanmawia. Index.
The human rights concern the human beings. Human rights are essential for the dignified human existence and adequate development of human personality without which to live as human beings become difficult and impossible. Human rights are of two types viz. right to have basic human needs like food, clothing, shelter and medical care and rights like education, freedom of culture, speech, expression and movement. Right to development is also significant provision/step. The participation of the people in development process is emphasized. But economic reforms based on capitalist model of development and bad governance being and anti-thesis to good governance fail to promote, protect and preserve basic human rights and also to instill a sense of security and fearlessness. This also divides the Indian society into the haves and have-nots. The human rights of the poor and Dalits are often violated despite constitutional commitments. The retreating state cannot promote and protect the socio-economic rights of the disadvantaged/deprived people.
The volume has twenty four research papers dealing with various dimensions of human rights, which are full of policy insights. The volume will be found useful to policy makers, NGO, social scientists, practitioners of political and administrative system, who are interested not only in understanding the concept but in-identifying the solution to the issues and problems of human rights such as poverty, hunger and unemployment for the greatest good of the greatest number especially the poor, deprived, Dalits and minorities and women. (jacket)
The human rights concern the human beings. Human rights are essential for the dignified human existence and adequate development of human personality without which to live as human beings become difficult and impossible. Human rights are of two types viz. right to have basic human needs like food, clothing, shelter and medical care and rights like education, freedom of culture, speech, expression and movement. Right to development is also significant provision/step. The participation of the people in development process is emphasized. But economic reforms based on capitalist model of development and bad governance being and anti-thesis to good governance fail to promote, protect and preserve basic human rights and also to instill a sense of security and fearlessness. This also divides the Indian society into the haves and have-nots. The human rights of the poor and Dalits are often violated despite constitutional commitments. The retreating state cannot promote and protect the socio-economic rights of the disadvantaged/deprived people.
The volume has twenty four research papers dealing with various dimensions of human rights, which are full of policy insights. The volume will be found useful to policy makers, NGO, social scientists, practitioners of political and administrative system, who are interested not only in understanding the concept but in-identifying the solution to the issues and problems of human rights such as poverty, hunger and unemployment for the greatest good of the greatest number especially the poor, deprived, Dalits and minorities and women. (jacket)
