Data for: An Explorative Venture on Human Right’s Birth and Foundation From the Roots of Vedic Era to the Roots of Bhakti and Sufi Era.

It is a tedious and extremely difficult task to establish and structure the interconnection and relationship between the human rights historical tradition of India. The concept of human rights is of a recent, post-Second World War origin. The idea of equality of all individuals has fed directly into a human rights perspective. Individualism as a doctrine itself is a pure modem idea. Therefore, if you want to look at India's traditional heritage as a possible source of inspiration for a human rights perspective today, a superficial investigation may not yield much. Such a search is neither easy nor possible. It specifically laid down concern and emancipation of the individual as a cornerstone of any human right activity. It would be imperative to dissect and dismantle the concept of human rights and to take out the constitutive elements that make the whole. It should be possible to go back to the Indian tradition and identify those elements that essentially constitute human rights today. In other words, you may not easily find any intellectual currents of individualism, universalism, or egalitarianism in the remote past. But certain features of a human rights perspective like humanism, concern for the lower social groups, respect for their emancipation, and acceptance of their right to protest, compassion, non-violence, etc. register an abundant presence.

梳理并构建印度人权历史传统的内在关联与逻辑脉络，是一项繁重且极具挑战的工作。人权概念起源较晚，诞生于第二次世界大战之后。人人平等的理念直接为人权视角的形成提供了核心支撑。作为一种学说的个人主义本身是纯粹的近代观念。因此，若欲将印度传统遗产视作当代人权理念的潜在灵感源泉，仅进行表层考察往往难有斩获。此类探索既非易事，亦难一蹴而就。人权视角明确将对个体的关怀与解放确立为一切人权实践的基石。我们有必要对人权概念进行拆解剖析，剥离出构成其完整内涵的核心要素。我们可回溯印度传统，甄别出那些在当下本质上构成人权内涵的要素。换言之，在遥远的印度历史中，我们未必能轻易觅得个人主义、普遍主义或平等主义的思想潮流。但人权视角的若干特征——如人文主义、对社会底层群体的关怀、对其解放的尊重、对其抗议权利的认可，以及慈悲、非暴力等理念——在印度传统中比比皆是。