Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

Prachi Agrawal ¹

Affiliations
1 Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, IN

Abstract

One area which saw the cumulative impact of all these transitions in a powerful manner was India's nuclear diplomacy. After years of promoting idealistic slogans such as universal disarmament, India by the late 1990s recognized the importance of becoming a declared nuclear weapon power. Despite the steady nuclearization of its security environment over the decades, India remained ambiguous about its attitudes to its national own nuclear weapons programme. Even as it tested a nuclear device in 1974, India refused to follow through with the nuclear weapons project. By the late 1990s, though, India found it necessary to make itself an unambiguous nuclear power. The economic growth of the decade gave it the self-confidence that it could ride through the inevitable international reaction to it. India was also right it betting that a country of its size and economic potential could not be sanctioned and isolated for too long. Even more important, India sensed that there might be diplomatic opportunities for getting the great powers acknowledge if not legitimize its nuclear weapons programme and remove the high technology sanctions against it. Within seven years after its second round of nuclear testing in 1998, India signed the historic nuclear deal with the Bush Administration in July 2005 under which the U.S. agreed to change its domestic non-proliferation law and revise the international guidelines on nuclear cooperation in favour of India.

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Prachi Agrawal ¹

Affiliations
1 Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur, (C.G.), IN

Abstract

This article explores the meaning of democracy as a concept and provides an idea of a specific type of democracy that is Representative Democracy, which is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people. The article also deals with participatory democracy which strives to create opportunities for all members of a political group to make meaningful contributions to decision-making. Concluding, the article outlines in clear terms that one of the major problems of Indian democracy is its population and proposes certain ways to bring democracy to a better and more realistic level.

Keywords

Democracy, Representative Democracy, Participation, Increasing Population.

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Prachi Agrawal ¹

Affiliations
1 Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur (C.G.), IN

Abstract

Why are gender and sexuality important for policymakers, practitioners and activists? Sexuality and gender can combine to make a huge difference in people's lives - between well-being and ill-being, and sometimes between life and death.

Because sexuality is influenced by gender norms:

In the WHO definition of sexuality, social influences around sexuality affect us all. Gender is one of these influences, i.e. expectations about how women and men, boys and girls, will behave differently from each other (as well as expectations that everyone will be either male or female, and not transgender.

This article deals with the role played by gender in a society and its impact upon the same as well as on the development of an individual. The article explains the social, cultural and psychological aspects of gender roles. It also includes the approaches adopted by various scholars to throw light upon gender inequality and its impact upon the society.

Because ideologies around sexuality are used to control women:

In recognizing women's sexual and reproductive autonomy rather than protecting women's sexual purity, one can tackle the ischolar_mains of gender-based violence. An attempt has also been made to explain the concept of sexuality and the change in its notion along with changing times.

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