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Author:   Om Prakash Dwivedi (Om Prakash Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in English at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, India) ,  V. G. Julie Rajan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9781138120891

ISBN 10:   1138120898
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   26 February 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"The State of Human Rights in Postcolonial India, 1947–2014: Postcolonial and Anti-Colonial Terrains Part I. Education and Social Value 1. The Paradox and Promise of Children’s Rights in Indian Schools 2. Education as Empowerment? Gender and the Human Right to Education in Postcolonial India Part II. The Body and Autonomy 3. Truth-Telling Techniques: The Aditi Sharma Case and the Implications for Human Rights in India 4. Experiencing Torture and Human Rights Violations: Reflections on Self-Experience 5. Writing Disability and Rights in Naseema Part III. Legal Subjectivity and Civil Rights 6. Reflections on the Use of Fatal Force by the Indian State: Colonial and Postcolonial 7. The Subject of Rights: Conflict Violence and Transitional Justice in India 8. Gender, Politics, and Development in Rural India Part IV. Violence, Women, and the Girl-Child 9. On a Different Footing: Has ""Nirbhaya"" Turned India Around? 10. Human Dignity and Social Justice: Locating Agency in Dalit Women in the Pudukkottai District of Tamil Nadu, India Part V. Negotiating Globalization and Capitalism 11. What’s Old Is New: How the West’s Neoliberal Reforms Seek to Re-Enslave India 12. Free to be Gay"": Same-Sex Relations in India, Globalized Homophobia and Globalized Gay Rights"

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Om Prakash Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in English at Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, India. He has co-authored Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (2014) and co-edited Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market (2014). Dwivedi is also the editor of Tracing the New Indian Diaspora (2014). V. G. Julie Rajan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, USA. She has lectured in the Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as on political violence and women’s human rights for the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, USA. Her research interests include women and militarism, violence against women, terrorism and human rights. Rajan’s monographs include Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence (2011) and Al Qaeda’s Global Crisis: The Islamic State, Takfir, and the Genocide of Muslims (2015). Among her edited collections are Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (2008, 2015) and Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras (2011). Rajan’s current research concerns genocide, gendercide and femicide in the territories claimed by The Islamic State globally.

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