Civic action and dissent in a democracy
- 2017
- p.84-96.
- Oct
This paper focuses on the singularly important role of social action and human rights groups in India in safeguarding democracy, justice and ensuring constitutional guarantees. Such groups are distinguished by divergent ideologies, objectives, scales, cultures and leadership, modes of functioning, funding and relations with the state, and are confronted by myriad challenges. Nevertheless, they continue to offer hope and succour to the oppressed, the dispossessed and the disenfranchised and bring their concerns on to the agenda of state action and the discourse of electoral politics. - Reproduced.