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The relationship between ‘human rights’ and ‘development’ is actually a number of different relationships. There are at least three distinct clusters of concepts among which there may be trade-offs or complementarities—namely, civil and political rights, basic economic and social rights (rights to subsistence and security), and aggregate economic growth. Various studies have focused on two of these three, or on different subsets of their total relationship.
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Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics (New York: Harper & Row, 1960);
Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968);
Guillermo A. O’Donnell, Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1979: 1st edn. 1973).
Jack Donnelly, ‘Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Analytic Critique of Non-Western Conceptions of Human Rights’, American Political Science Review, 76 (June 1982), pp. 303–16;
Claude E. Welch, Jr. and Ronald Meltzer (eds), Human Rights and Development in Africa (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984);
Richard Schifter, ‘Introduction,’ Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1985, Report Submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate, by the Department of State, Washington, DC (US Government Printing Office, February 1986) pp. 2–3.
On these controversies see Francine Frankel, India’s Political Economy 1947–1977: The Gradual Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978) and
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, ‘Judicial Review versus Parliamentary Sovereignty: The Struggle over Stateness in India’, Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 19 (November 1981) pp. 231–56, and In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
Suresh Sharma, ‘Voluntary Efforts and Institutional Funding’, Lokayan Bulletin, 5, 2 (1987) p. 89.
For an extended discussion and classification of the social contexts of human rights violations in India as seen by the indigenous human rights groups, see Barnett R. Rubin, ‘The Civil Liberties Movement in India: New Approaches to the State and Social Change’, Asian Survey 27, 3 (March 1987) pp. 371–92.
For a sample of these views see any issue of the Lokayan Bulletin (LB). A few typical articles, chosen almost at random, are Rajni Kothari, ‘On the Non-Party Political Process: The NGO’s, the State, and World Capitalism’, LB 4, 5, (1987) pp. 6–26;
Smitu Kothari, ‘Ecology Vs. Development: The Struggle for Survival’, LB 3, 4/5, (1985) pp. 7–22;
Shiv Visvanathan, ‘From the Annals of the Laboratory State’, LB 3, 4/5 (1985) pp. 23–46; and
Ashis Nandy, ‘Development and Authoritarianism: An Epitaph on Social Engineering’, LB 5, 1, (1987) pp. 38–50.
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Rubin, B.R. (1989). Human Rights and Development: Reflections on Social Movements in India. In: Forsythe, D.P. (eds) Human Rights and Development. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19967-9_7
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