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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 396 kr
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Arc of Ambedkar's Fraternity focuses on B. R. Ambedkar in the light of recent global interest in constitutional fraternity. The book locates his work in the context of contemporary scholarship and examines deliberations on fraternity in the Constituent Assembly in relation to democracy and the divisions of caste, class, and religion. It looks at Supreme Court judgements and legal discussions that gradually interpreted Ambedkar's fraternity to frame state obligations and the socioeconomic rights of individuals and groups in relation to each other.Robinson reflects on the disappearance of fraternity and emergence of secularism as the focus of Indian social science debates, and the book highlights the need to bridge this gap by considering how the two are interconnected. Finally, the discussion turns to another strand in Ambedkar's thought, which located fraternity in religion, specifically, Navayana Buddhism, and questioned the limitations of democratic constitutionalism and secular law in creating fraternity. This perspective is read in the light of Derrida, who similarly indicated the paradox of fraternity in modern democracy. Ambedkar's Buddhism is thus interpreted not as an abandonment of politics or its practical resolution, but as an acknowledgement of the indeterminacy involved in keeping fraternity and democracy open to what is to come.
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
265 kr
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This volume explores the issue of minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It examines how modern law creates and conditions minority identity and also how groups manipulate the ground-level situation to project a certain identity at a particular point of time. When more than one category applies to a group, and such categorizations become the basis for the struggle for rights, the politics of identity become even more complex. The volume specifically focuses on 'religious' minorities, questioning the religious identification of groups and showing that the construction of minority groups in religious terms is difficult to achieve given the existence of several, and sometimes contradictory, loyalties and identities. The essays address the minority issue by engaging with different minority communities in India. These also question the relationship of minority identities to caste, gender, and tribal identity. This is the new paperback edition.