The book explores sociological dimensions of human rights regime by recording India’s experience of child welfare in the twentieth century and, after a human rights audit of the existing institutional arrangement, suggests agenda for reform.
Theoretically, it is a critique of cultural relativism in human rights and an analysis of the theory of discourse ethics propounded recently by Habermas.
The book is a must for those who want to understand the meaning of the “rights” for the poor and the excluded.
Contents –
1. Sites of Struggle
2. Jurisprudence: Duty vs. Rights
3. The State Craft: Law, Approaches and Action
4. India’s Least Literate District
5. Consciousness on the Deprivation of Rights
