Hinduism and Human Rights

by Arvind Sharma

This volume is the Law in India Series offers critical insights into the complex ongoing debate on Hinduism and its relationship to human rights. The secular and religious realms constitute two main sources of value formation in the modern world. The human rights tradition embodies the former. The author forges a link between human rights discourses and the normative moral discourse within Hinduism to establish a conceptual approach to the issue in a given cultural ethos.The author critically analyses the key issues to establish that there is room for classical or traditional Hindu concepts and ideas in the current international debates on human rights.About the Author:-------------------Arvind Sharma is Birks Professor of comparative Religious at McGill University Montreal Canada. His other books include Hinduism and its sense of history and modern Hindu thought.