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Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been supported since Independence by a political structure that emphasizes equal rights for all, and protects liberties of religion and speech. But a decent Constitution ...
"In this major book, the author, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. In much of the world today ...
While America is focused on terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in India. As Martha Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating work on the country's politics, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state. Since long before the 2002 Gujarat riots, the power of the Hindu right has been growing, threatening India's hard-won constitutional practices of ...
Achieving social justice is one of the key challenges facing the world today. Scholars of political theory have long grappled with issues arising from it. However, as the history of ideas shows, the concept itself has undergone much change over the centuries and there is no watertight definition of what 'justice' connotes in the contemporary context. Going beyond the existing frontiers of social justice, this unique volume aims to develop theoretical concepts ...