Upendra Baxi
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This is a critical study of the patterns of impunity that exist in India where serious criminal conducts are concerned—torture, enforced disappearance, sexual violence, and atrocities against Dalits and religious minorities. The essays deal with the Indian penal and military law regimes, terrorism, victims’ rights, culpability of non-state actors and other issues. They examine the relevance of global justice and standards related to crimes against ...
This extensively revised and updated edition critically re-examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of ‘human rights’, their histories, and the myths that are embedded in them. It contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the ‘people in struggle and communities of resistance’ at center stage. The author’s abiding concern is the cold reality that despite the last century being justly ...