ABSTRACT
The chapter provides an analytical account of how new dimensions of social inequalities which get manifested in the interface of class, caste, gender and ethnicity are responsible for shaping up the discourses on rights during the last few decades. The three trends of globalization, authoritarianism and communalism are powerful currents affecting the entire gamut of social issues in India, throwing up different linkages of rights that concern class, gender, caste and ethnicity. Tracing the old and new dimensions of domination and resistance being expressed through people’s rights in contemporary times, Mohanty argues for a ‘creative society’ where the struggle and assertion for one form of rights cannot be delinked from the struggle and assertion for other forms of social rights.
