This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights in the East and the West and provides a comparative analysis of the independent streams of thought originating from the two different geographic spaces.

1. Human Rights and Vedic Texts - Some Reflections 2. Human Rights and the Rigvedic and post-Rigvedic texts 3. Human Rights and the Dharmasutras 4. Human Rights and the Dharmasastras 5. Status of Women during the Rigvedic and Post Rigvedic Phases 6. Status of Slavery during the Rigvedic and Post Rigvedic Phases 7. Greek humanistic thought in historical perspective 8. Socrates and Human Rights 9. Plato's ideas and writings and Human Rights 10. Aristotle's works and humanism 11. Status of Women and Slavery in ancient Greece 12. Hellenistic Philosophy 13. Roman thought and Human Rights in historical perspective 14. Marcus Tullius Cicero's Philosophy and Human Rights 15. Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Philosophy and Human Rights 16. Status of Women and Slavery in Ancient Rome 17. The Roman Values 18. Summing Up- ancient Indian and Greco-Roman thoughts and Human Rights in a comparative perspective