Contents

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-xii

Introduction

pp xiii-xlii

Part One - Rights, Obligations and Responsibilities

pp 1-2

1 - Applying Ethics: Modes, Motives and Levels of Commitment

pp 3-32

2 - Jurisprudence and the Individual: Bridging the General and the Particular

pp 33-50

3 - Why Moral Relativism Does Not Make Sense

pp 51-56

4 - Human Rights – A Theoretical Foray

pp 57-66

5 - Moral Relativism and Human Rights

pp 67-82

6 - Complicity and Responsibility

pp 83-90

7 - Dharma: The Overriding Principle of Indian Life and Thought

pp 91-100

8 - Moral Foundations of Social Order as Suggested in the Vaiśeṣikasūtras

pp 101-108

9 - Modern Western Conception of Justice as Equality before the Law and Dharmaśāstras

pp 109-126

Part Two - Human Rights Issues

pp 127-128

10 - Fragile Identities and Constructed Rights

pp 129-138

11 - Affirmative Action: Compensation or Discrimination?

pp 139-150

12 - Ethics, Human Rights and the LGBT Discourse in India

pp 151-170

13 - Distributive Justice: Locating in Context

pp 171-182

14 - Punishment and Human Rights

pp 183-192

15 - Rights of the ‘Mad’ in Mental Health Sciences

pp 193-218

16 - Choice, Life and the (m)Other: Towards Ethics in/of Abortion

pp 219-236

17 - The Nationalist Project and the Women's Question: A Reading of The Home and the World and Nationalism

pp 237-246

18 - On the Idea of Obligation to Future Generations

pp 247-252

19 - Morality in Cyberspace: Intellectual Property and the Right to Information

pp 253-264

20 - Violence – A Right to the Survival of the Self?

pp 265-292

21 - ‘Moral Obligation’ to Fight for the Prevention of Greater Calamity: A Debate between Sādharana Dharma and Sva Dharma

pp 293-314

22 - Globalisation and Human Rights

pp 315-326

Notes on Contributors

pp 327-330