Human Rights and Insurgency: The North-East India
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8175410914
Length
196p., Notes & References; 23cm.
Subjects
The book makes a critical intervention in contemporary discourses on Human Rights and examines them in the context of insurgency, particularly in North-East India. The institutionalization of human rights has made the modern nation-states and international bodies like the United Nations, the custodian of individual and collective rights. The violation of human rights takes place when such bodies and the state assume the role of "hegemonic actor in the public ...