India: Democratic Assertions - The Making Of India's Recognition Of Forest Rights Act   Kundan Kumar, and John M. Kerr, 2012   Inclusion of marginalized sections and minorities remains one of the most vexing problems for democratic politics. This article discusses the enactment of a recent Indian law, ‘The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act, 2006’, as exemplifying the possibilities of inclusion of marginalized groups in democratic...

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