Negotiating the spaces: exploring issues of human rights in an Indian text
This article is an attempt to negotiate the spaces between a number of problematic positions concerning Hinduism and human rights through the close study of one particular text, the Rājadharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. By examining safeguards and provisions for subjects articulated in the text'...
| Published in: | Religion |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2018]
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Religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 105-127 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mahābhārata
/ Human rights
/ Hinduism
/ Nationalism
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| RelBib Classification: | BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism |
| Further subjects: | B
history of human rights
B Hindu Nationalism B Human Rights B Mahabharata B Hinduism B Just War B Religions |
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| Summary: | This article is an attempt to negotiate the spaces between a number of problematic positions concerning Hinduism and human rights through the close study of one particular text, the Rājadharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata. By examining safeguards and provisions for subjects articulated in the text's discourse of kingly duty, it engages with some of the arguments forwarded in the theoretical literature on human rights. Here it interrogates, in particular, the idea that Hinduism is distinctively incompatible with these norms in a way other historical or cultural traditions are not. The article concludes by asking whether it is possible to counter Eurocentric tendencies in global debates without furthering illiberal agendas within local ones. Discussing the appropriation of ‘Raj dharma,' and the texts that deal with it, by the Hindu Right, it briefly outlines some recent moves in human rights theory that help facilitate the reclamation of a rich and plural textual heritage. |
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| ISSN: | 0048-721X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2017.1386137 |