01004pab a2200157 454500 180718b2003 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Jha, Sheefali Rights versus representation: defending minority interests in the Constituent Assembly 2003 p.1579-583. 19 Apr In the name of democracy, the constituent assembly of India adopted certain specific individual and collective rights to religion. Democracy, however, is not just about rights; another integral component of democracy is representation. This essay argues that the granting of a range of individual and collective religious rights to the minorities was used, in the constituent assembly, to justify the refusal of their demand for more adequate mechanisms of representation, for instance, for proportional representation or for reserved seats in the legislatures. - Reproduced. Minority groups Economic and Political Weekly 56152 56152 56152 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 38, Issue no: 16 AR56597 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR