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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. It has been 64 years since India the largest democracy in the world attained independence. Yet, justice for all is still a far cry in the country where the caste system continues to determine political, social, and economic lives of a billion people. Money and muscle power, together with political string-pulling, often result in denial of justice for the hapless 'have-nots', especially the Dalits (untouchables), ravaged by poverty and illiteracy. Atrocities and extortion on the Dalits, fake encounters, refusal to register complaints against the well-heeled, arbitrary arrests on false charges, illegal detention and custodial deaths are in commonplace. In the absence of a modern social audit system, the keepers of the law often unleash a 'police raj', especially in rural India. A crippled National Human Rights Commission and its state subsidiaries with limited recommendatory control and a dysfunctional Legal Aid System depict a gloomy picture indeed. In a unique way, Lenin Raghuvanshi, a veteran human rights activist, citing the case-studies primarily drawn from Uttar Pradesh, registering the highest rate of crime against the Dalits, chronicles how with implicit support from the administration, the Dalits are tortured and subjected to humiliation by the higher castes, like being garlanded with shoes, their faces blackened or being forced to ride an ass; yet, in most of the cases, violence, deaths or custodial tortures that are committed against the marginalised and deprived castes go unrecorded. Ironically, even after having shed the colonial yoke, its legacy continues in the administrative framework of our independent India marked with widespread corruption which has rendered many government-sponsored schemes in rural India a failure. (jacket).

Soft cover. Zustand: New. In 2020, while protests against the new citizenship law were still rocking the streets of India, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country. Subsequently, the year saw the largest internal migration in post-Independence India. It was an unprecedented reverse migration from urban centres to rural areas when hundreds of thousands of people who had come to the cities to earn a living were going back to their native places after a sudden nation-wide lockdown was imposed on 24 March 2020, bringing economic activities almost to a halt and making their livelihood uncertain. Several Indian states went into elections later in 2020 and in 2021. How far did the migrants matter in these polls? How did the massive and mixed population of migrants in India internal as well as cross-border migrants figure in the electoral campaigns of the political parties? This book presents three studies that take a hard look at the ground realities in three States that went to polls Assam, Bihar and West Bengal searching for an answer to this question. Unlike most election studies that deal with in-situ voter communities, it not only brings the migrants in focus but also sees them as subjects and not mere consumers of the election campaigns.

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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. In early January 1948, Dr Jagdishchandra Jain, the Chief Prosecution Witness of the Mahatma Gandhi Murder Trial, came to know of the plot to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi. He immediately informed the Bombay Government, but unfortunately, his warning went unheeded. Jain had information of the secret plan when the Punjabi refugee Madanlal Pahwa, one of the key conspirators, had confided in him.

Pbk. Contents Introduction 1 Southern part of every village is South Africa 2 My own voice folk voices of marginalised 3 Testimonial therapy an emerging hope for victims 4 Shrinking livelihood in golden jubilee year of freedom 5 Monument against child starvation 6 Rule of Lord Collison of caste Patriarch and corruption 7 Political patronage Annexure Notes It has been 64 years since India the largest democracy in the world attained independence Yet justice for all is still a far cry in the country where the caste system continues to determine political social and economic lives of a billion peopleMoney and muscle power together with political string pulling often result in denial of justice for the hapless have-nots? especially the Dalits untouchables ravaged by poverty and illiteracy Atrocities and extortion on the Dalits fake encounters refusal to register complaints against the well heeled arbitrary arrests on false charges illegal detention and custodial deaths are in commonplace In the absence of a modern social audit system the keepers of the law often unleash a police Raj especially in rural India A crippled National Human Rights Commission and its state subsidiaries with limited recommendatory control and a dysfunctional Legal Aid System depict a gloomy picture indeed In a unique way Lenin Raghuvanshi a veteran human rights activist citing the case-studies primarily drawn from Uttar Pradesh registering the highest rate of crime against the Dalits chronicles how with implicit support from the administration the Dalits are tortured and subjected to humiliation by the higher castes like being garlanded with shoes their faces blackened or being forced to ride an ass yet in most of the cases violence deaths or custodial tortures that are committed against the marginalised and deprived castes go unrecorded Ironically even after having shed the colonial yoke its legacy continues in the administrative framework of our independent India marked with widespread corruption which has rendered many government-sponsored schemes in rural India a failure 136 pp.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. India's emergence as a new major power in the global sphere has been noted across the spectrum. India's capacity to succeed in emerging and sustaining herself as a significant global player is, however, crucially dependent on the evolving dynamics within the spheres of its neighbourhood and India's capacity to make this rise acceptable and enthusiastic. In this connection, it is important to note that the concept of 'region' or 'neighbourhood' has been enhanced to bypass geographical divisions and now includes not only South Asia but also India's extended neighbourhood consisting of West Asia, Central Asia along with Southeast and East Asia. India's neighbourhood policy, launched under Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014, not only undertook a fresh initiative towards India's immediate neighbourhood in South Asia but also recalibrated itself and extended into other Asian regions. This was perhaps necessitated by the failure of the SAARC to ensure regionalism in any substantial manner but more importantly, this is an acceptance of the pre-colonial and colonial linkages that had evolved and thrived till the emergence of the post 1945 global order signified by the Cold War dynamics. Given the importance of India's neighbourhood policymaking within the context of India's global diplomacy, the recently established Kolkata based think tank Bandhan-HP Ghosh Centre deemed it fit to initiate a research project trying to cover key areas of India's neighbourhood policymaking. The present volume, titled India and the Neighbourhood: Case Studies and edited by Suranjan Das and Shantanu Chakrabarti, is an outcome of the first phase of research under this project and covers India's evolving relations with her South Asian neighbours; with Central Asian Republics (CARs); Afghanistan and Bhutan.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. A young woman belonging to a religious minority escapes sectarian persecution in her own land and seeks refuge in a neighbouring country, only to find that here, too, she must submit to the lust of powerful men if she has to survive. Another is deprived of a peaceful burial on her death as the social guardians declare that she had violated the tenets of her faith by preferring ligation to being a child-bearing machine all her life. One who has had an unhappy girlhood turns to religion to seek some solace but ends up being whipped in the hot sun for committing the heresy of leading prayers with her friends which is a taboo for her gender. Three sisters bear the pain of their mother whose life had been made hell by her husband for failing to give birth to a male heir. These and other stories in this collection have such women at their central characters who seldom find a voice in the domain of English literature: rooted firmly in the oriental society of Bangladesh, they speak of their trials and tribulations in a lingo that represent their soul sisters all over the world.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Pranab Bardhan has been arguing for a long time that a Universal Basic Income policy can be effective in a country like India to relieve economic insecurity to a large extent. Bardhan has also constructed a thorough critique of the political direction India has been taking over the last few years leading to considerable social stress. For him, the health of a country's political economy depends on its people's capacity to exercise their democratic rights as well as their capacity to earn and spend. Thus, empowerment of the people is linked organically with income for the people. Bardhan's argument has emerged stronger in the wake of the COVID-19 onslaught. Many people, especially in the vast informal sector and in the salaried sector too, have suffered loss of income during the long spells of lockdown. Ensuring a basic income for them is crucial for social insurance as well as the rejuvenation of the economy as a whole. Indian Polity and Economy: A Mirror to Difficult Times, brings together some of Bardhan's articles written over the past five years on Universal Basic Income, the current political situation, and political-economy and policy, culminating in the recent pandemic period. Three interviews which he has given to media persons on these issues are also included. These will help understand Bardhan's standpoint more clearly. In one of the articles, he engages in a discourse with a prominent friend of his, Thomas Piketty, on how applicable the latter's arguments against the basic income are to India. Articles comparing the Indian situation with other countries, particularly Indonesia and China, put the picture in perspective.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Counter-Gaze Media, Migrants, Minorities assesses the situation of migrant minorities not just in Third World colonised countries in South Asia but also in the Western societies in Europe which hitherto had not been subjected to any meaningful analysis. Under the Eurasia-Net programme, scholars, minority and human rights activists, researchers, and journalists from South Asia visited European countries while their counterparts from Europe came to South Asia to evaluate the conditions of the minorities in each of these regions accessing language rights, political participation, representation in public media and institutions, and arrangements for protection of their rights under a majority-centric domination. The result is the present study that throws up some critical questions on how migrants have come to form minority communities, how their claims to citizenship, rights and justice have occupied space in the politics of the nation and supra-national bodies. The collection of essays here highlight how the protection arrangements always fall short of their goal, where protection becomes one more tool in the hands of the government to sustain the majority-minority divide and how it refuses to accept the claims of minorities to equality and people-hood. A successful minority is one where the minority group withers away and the protection regime in turn becomes redundant. This research programme examined the European experience of minority issues as well as the South Asian laws and practices. There is an increasing familiarity between the two sets of experiences and so the book is not so much about counter gaze but about the anticipated and resultant familiarity in human rights struggles.