Social Justice And Equality In India

Author : Vidhu Verma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136515011
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-discrimination and Equality in India written by Vidhu Verma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Justice is a concept familiar to most Indians but one whose meaning is not always understood as it signifies a variety of government strategies designed to enhance opportunities for underprivileged groups. By tracing the trajectory of social justice from the colonial period to the present, this book examines how it informs ideas, practices and debates on discrimination and disadvantage today. After outlining the historical context for reservations for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes that began under British colonial rule, the book examines the legal and moral strands of demands raised by newer groups since 1990. In addition the book shows how the development of quota policies has been significantly influenced by the nature and operation of democracy in India. It describes the recent proliferation of quota demands for reservations in higher education, private sector and for women and religious minorities in legislative assemblies. The book goes on to argue that while proliferation of demands address unequal incidence of poverty, deprivation and inequalities across social groups and communities, care has to be taken to ensure that existing justifications for quotas for discriminated groups due to caste hierarchies are not undermined. Providing a rich historical background to the subject, the book is a useful contribution to the study on the evolution of multiple conceptions of social justice in contemporary India.

Author : Panjab University. Directorate of Correspondence Courses
Publisher : New Delhi : Ess Ess Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and Equality in India written by Panjab University. Directorate of Correspondence Courses and published by New Delhi : Ess Ess Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vidhu Verma
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136515003
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-discrimination and Equality in India written by Vidhu Verma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Justice is a concept familiar to most Indians but one whose meaning is not always understood as it signifies a variety of government strategies designed to enhance opportunities for underprivileged groups. By tracing the trajectory of social justice from the colonial period to the present, this book examines how it informs ideas, practices and debates on discrimination and disadvantage today. After outlining the historical context for reservations for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes that began under British colonial rule, the book examines the legal and moral strands of demands raised by newer groups since 1990. In addition the book shows how the development of quota policies has been significantly influenced by the nature and operation of democracy in India. It describes the recent proliferation of quota demands for reservations in higher education, private sector and for women and religious minorities in legislative assemblies. The book goes on to argue that while proliferation of demands address unequal incidence of poverty, deprivation and inequalities across social groups and communities, care has to be taken to ensure that existing justifications for quotas for discriminated groups due to caste hierarchies are not undermined. Providing a rich historical background to the subject, the book is a useful contribution to the study on the evolution of multiple conceptions of social justice in contemporary India.

Author : P. S. Krishnan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351603493
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Exclusion and Justice in India written by P. S. Krishnan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws upon nearly seven decades of first-hand experiences from the ground to understand social exclusion, and movements and efforts for social justice in India. The author, a renowned champion of social justice for deprived social classes, delves into the roots of discrimination in Indian society as well as explains why caste discrimination still persists and how it can be effectively countered. The volume: examines the caste system and its socio-economic ramifications from the perspective of Dalits, and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes; explores the nuances of the Gandhi–Ambedkar debate on the status and liberation of Dalits and synthesis of the approaches of Gandhi, Ambedkar, Narayana Guru and Marx in resolving certain key issues; analyses legal, economic, social and cultural frameworks to understand caste system and related concepts such as ‘untouchability’, atrocities, reservation, etc. in contemporary India; and provides practical insights into the Constitution-based comprehensive measures required to remedy the consequences of caste system and establish social equality in a holistic manner. The book will interest scholars and researchers of social exclusion and social justice, Dalit, Adivasi and Backward Classes studies, sociology and social anthropology, politics, law and human rights, as well as policy-makers, think tanks and NGOs in the field.

Author : Neeta Bora
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice and Women in India written by Neeta Bora and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at a seminar held in Nainital in 1996.

Author : Prabha Chawla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Equality and Justice in East and West written by Prabha Chawla and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L.M. Khanna
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482819333
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Social Justice written by L.M. Khanna and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1990 was a year of severe turmoil in social history of India. The acceptance of reservations in services for socially and educationally backward classes created protests and a number of young students lost their lives. After a protracted case hearing, in 1992, the Supreme Court severely castigated the Hindu social structure for its lack of egalitarian ethos, four watertight compartments of four Varnas and a fifth of outcastes or Panchama. It blamed it for centuries of discrimination against other backward classes in which the victims were condemned to follow their hereditary occupations. It rejected the notion of equality and said there could be no equality between the unequal. Although much of the literature to contradict the above colonial times versions of Hindu social structure appeared later, there was enough literature to show even in 1992 that Varnas were not four watertight compartments; the theory of caste occupation nexus did not have universal support; and for ages there had been nothing lower than once born Shudra. This book is an effort to answer, what constituted the Hindu social structure; what were its essences and what aberrations and constructs, and how the law got misapplied in post-independence India.

Author : Leelamma Devasia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in India written by Leelamma Devasia and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K. V. Cybil
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429559593
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Justice written by K. V. Cybil and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political and philosophical underpinnings of exclusion and social injustice in India. It examines social movements, anti-caste uprisings, reformers like Ambedkar and Narayana Guru and writers like Foucault and Serres to establish a link between the political and social milieu of the idea of nationhood. Going beyond the legal framework of justice, the essays in the volume reassemble the social from popular perception and the margins, and challenge Rawlsian and Eurocentric paradigms which have dominated discourse on social injustice. The volume also draws on instances of history as well as contemporary issues, as well as locating them in the context of social and post-colonial theory. An intellectually stimulating yet subaltern engagement with the idea of justice, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social theory, law, modern South Asian history and social exclusion and discrimination studies.

Author : M. G. Chitkara
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788176483520
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dr. Ambedkar and Social Justice written by M. G. Chitkara and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life and social thought of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 1892-1956, Indian statesman and some previously published articles.