Human Rights in India (Historical, Social and Political Prespectives)

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Description
It is said that when the Socialist Revolution took place in Soviet Russia and the dictatorship of the proletariat was established, the other nations reali/ed with alarm that to forestall the forward march of the new upheaval, they must adjust their role of mere imposition and collection of taxes and maintenance of public order to a new one so that their people may be led to believe that they are genuinely interested in their welfare. The thesis is that the welfare state was conceived by them, not so much for the welfare of the people, but for the survival of the ruling powers in the non-Socialist nations so that their people may not rise in rebellion and ultimately overthrow them.
The same thing has also happened widi the growth and develop-ment of human rights, as it would appear from the clear ac-knowledgement in the Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 to the effect that human rights required to be protected by the rule of law 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression' and deprivation. Some basic rights therefore need to be secured to them to enable them to live as human beings above their bare animal existence.
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Contents
List of International Instruments
List of Statutes
List of Cited Cases
Introduction
1.  Awakening of Human Rights
2.  Victims of Human Rights Violations
3.  Fundamental Rights: The Constitutional Context of Human Rights
4.  Human Rights Initiatives
5.  Human Rights Awareness in Education A.
6.  Practising Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective
7.  Situating Human Rights in the Media N.V.
8.  Religious Freedom and Human Rights C Joseph Barnabas
9.  Human Rights of Prisoners
10.  Refugees and Human Rights: International and National Experiences
11.  Organizational Basis of Human Rights
12.  The Working of the National Human Rights Commission: A Perspective
13.  Setting an Agenda
Towards a Bibliography: Some Notes for Students, Teachers and Activists
Annexure I.   The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993
Annexure II.  National Human Rights Commission: Basic Standards Recommended by
                   Amnesty International
Annexure III. Notification of the National Human Rights Commission (Procedure)
                   Regulations, 1994
Annexure IV. Addresses of Statutory Agencies for Redress of Human Rights Grievances
                  (Chennai and Bangalore)
Index
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Author Details
Chiranjivi J. Nirmal (ed.) is Director of the Institute of Indian and International Studies, Madras and Professor of History at the Centre for Research on New International Economic Order, Chennai.
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