Suchergebnisse

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Decolonizing Democracy -- 1 Fraternalist and Paternalist Approaches to Colonial Rule -- 2 Resistant Convergences: Anticolonial Feminist Nationalism -- 3 Framing the Postcolonial Social Contract -- 4 Challenging Political Marginalization: The Women's Reservation Bill -- 5 Legal Pluralism and Gender Justice -- Conclusion: Building a Nondomination Contract -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

In Buddhist thought, the cultivation of maitri, often defined as loving-kindness, involves the development of a commitment to the well-being of all. Drawing on the analysis of B.R. Ambedkar's thought that Luis Cabrera presents in The Humble Cosmopolitan, this article explores Ambedkar's endorsement of the Buddhist concept of maitri over fraternity as an alternative conceptualization of democratic solidarity.

This essay examines the reconfiguration of the racial and sexual contracts underpinning democratic theory and practice in the transition to independence in India. Drawing upon the work of Carole Pateman and Charles Mills, Keating argues that the racialized fraternal democratic order that they describe was importantly challenged by nationalist and feminist struggles against colonialism in India, but was reshaped into what she calls a postcolonial sexual contract by the framers of the Indian Constitution.

This article analyzes the varying & sometimes contradictory deployments of symbols of womanhood in the articulation of nationalist identity in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. I argue that the historical shift of Tamil nationalist identity as predominantly a caste critique to an identity of "common culture" partly hinged on a reconfiguration of the nationalists' gender rhetoric. I examine contemporary Tamil politics to demonstrate ways that Jayalalitha Jayaram was able to manipulate nationalist symbols of womanhood &, at the same time, was constrained by them. In so doing, I point to both the possibility & the difficulty of maneuvering within & against the subject positions made available to women by nationalist discourses. 51 References. Adapted from the source document.