Introduction
Though, since its origin, the human rights movement (HRM) in India
has made significant interventions in the shaping of democratic politics,
there has been, rather surprisingly, no serious reflection on the various
shifts that it has gone through and the emerging trends, phases and discourses
within it. In fact, a pertinent question, given the various new
shifts, is: is there a single HRM at all in India today? Or, instead, are