Human Rights and Economic Development
The Indian Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11673196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Satish Kumar (0000-0001-7648-2630, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 47-47 |
| Publication date | 1981-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Rights Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-0392 • E-ISSN: 1085-794X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/761894 |
| OpenAlex | W2318702316 |
| Language | EN |
India has a mixed tradition with regard to emphasis on rights and duties of the individual vis-a-vis the state. According to A.S. Altekar, Hindu constitutional writers usually describe not the rights of the citizen but the duties of the state; the former are to be inferred from the latter. Similarly, they describe the duties of the citizens from which we are to indirectly infer the extent of control the state could exercise over its subjects
Development economics · Economics · Human rights · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Highly cited | No |
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