The level of infant and under-five mortality is high among scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) in India … between SCs/STs and non-SC/ST population in India with a special focus on the effect of maternal education. We used data from … backward regions or states, to further reduce IM and U5M in India. …

changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights … rights. Only by a contextualized and relational consideration of groups, they thus conclude, can competing demands of …

Minorities' claims for rights increasingly clash with majorities who wish to retain and defend "national" cultural and … rights abound, the normative literature is remarkably silent on the issue of the normative legitimacy of rights claims by … will by electoral force. But in the postwar rights regime in which protection for minority rights has proliferated, there …