Human InSecurity: Fear, Deprivation and Abuse in India

Human InSecurity: Fear, Deprivation and Abuse in India
Ram Mashru (Author)

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Human Rights

Reports on India’s chronic social and political evils have become impossible to avoid, and commentators have treated them as distinct problems. But this tendency to compartmentalise has obscured the many complex and interconnected factors that drive the stories of fear, deprivation and abuse in India. Ram Mashru drills beneath the news reports to identify those factors. This book takes a novel approach by relying on theory, and Human Security is adopted as a lens to examine India’s persistent social and political challenges. Ram examines three case studies – inter-ethnic violence, displacement and torture – to produce compelling answers to the question, ‘What are the causes of insecurity in India and what should be done about them?’

Ram Mashru is a commentator and researcher specialising in the politics, international relations, human rights and economics of South Asia. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, he has had articles published in leading publications internationally and has carried out research for think tanks and for the Universities of London, Oxford and Harvard. Human InSecurity: Fear, Deprivation and Abuse in India is his first book. He can be followed on Twitter @RamMashru.

• Rank: #156219 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-12-09
• Released on: 2013-12-09
• Format: Kindle eBook