Democracy, difference and social justice - Mahajan Gurpreet (Oxford University Press New Delhi, 1998)
Keywords: Discrimination -- Social justice -- Difference as discrimination -- State of nature and natural rights -- Social contract and the general will -- Right of man -- Declaration of independence -- Race and equality -- Racism -- Women's right -- Minority culture and the nation-state -- Multicultural citizenship -- Diversity -- Minority representation -- Consociational democracy -- Civil association -- Political community -- Politics of cultural diversity -- Principles of plenitude -- Cultural diversity and liberal democracy -- Politics of Agonistic respect -- Parliament : Incompatibility of liberalism and democracy -- Democracy and social justice -- Justice/ Judiciary -- Constitutional liberty and the concept of justice -- Liberalism and the concept of equality -- Social justice through positive discrimination -- Discrimination and morally relevant characteristics -- Reserve discrimination and compensatory justice -- Justifying reverse discrimination in employment -- Reparations to individual of group -- DeFunis v. Sweatt -- Positive discrimination -- Group inequality -- Individual rights against group rights -- Politics of difference -- Difference and discrimination the Indian debate -- Caste system -- Distributive justice and institutional well-being -- Policy making -- Recasting reservations in the language of rights -- Colonization -- Equal opportunity -- Indian constitution and provisions for special treatment