India and Human Rights: Reflections

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This compendium of 18 papers attempts to critically evaluate the problems that plague the present day polity and society, and suggest remedies through the concept of human rights in its different dimensions. Tracing the genesis of human rights in India. It presents a human right perspective on the freedom movement, human rights, the contributors discuss at length the place of human rights in dharma, protection of human right to environment, economic rights, human rights angle of public prosecution, protection of human rights in the administration of criminal justice, right to compensation, trafficking of girls, and impact of globalisation on human rights. The book will be of great use for the legal practitioners, policy makers, scholars and students of different disciplines of law.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR T.S.N. Sastry

T.S.N. Sastry is a Reader in International Studies and Coordinator of the Centre for Human Rights, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. He was the first recipient of Ph.D. degree in International Law from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1996. Dr. Sastry has authored a book , entitled State Succession in Indian Context. He has also edited Fifty Years of Indian Independence and the Polity, and co-edited Studies in Human Rights. He has published as well a good number of research papers in journals of national and international repute. Dr. Sastry has participated and conducted many seminars and conferences.