Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India

Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-312

  Bajpai, Rochana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group rights; India; Liberal democracy; Lower castes; Mandal; Minority rights; Muslims; Politics; Religion; Shah Bano

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856823657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198067504.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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