Marginalities in India: Themes and Perspectives
Contents: Part I: Conceptual Considerations. 1. Situating Marginalities in India: An Introduction/Asmita Bhattacharyya and Sudeep Basu. 2. Marginality, Marginalisation and the Idea of Justice/Partha Nath Mukherji. Part II: Marginalities of Yore: Caste. 3. Rethinking Dalit Marginality: Issues and Contestations/Sudeep Basu. 4. Social Exclusion and the Mindscapes of Caste: A Study of Kendrapara District of Odisha/Suratha Kumar Malik. Part III: Development, Displacement and the Tribal Question. 5. Displacement and Deprivation in Jharkhand/Pankaj Kumar. 6. The State and the Autochthons: Development Induced Conflict/Binu Sundas. 7. ‘Revisiting Naxalbari’: Narratives of Violence and Exclusions from the Marginal Spaces/Arnab Roy Chowdhury. 8. Local Communities in Forest Management: An Evaluation/Anurima Mukherjee Basu. 9. Land Laws, Ownership and Tribal Identity: The Manipur Experience/Ngamjahao Kipgen. 10. Migrant Tribe in a Globalising City: Educational Views, Aspirations and Choices of the Santals in Kolkata/Ruchira Das. Part IV: Minority and Gendered Positions: An Intersectional Perspective. 11. The Marginal Locations of Muslim Women on Various Sites in India/Esita Sur. 12. Reassessing the Socio-economic Condition Among Muslim and Hindus: Comparative Accounts/Santanu Panda. 13. Unmasking the Masked Gendered Sociability: A Case of the Indian Software Industry/Asmita Bhattacharyya. 14. Negotiating Marginality: Women Activists in the People’s Science Movement, Kerala/Shoma Choudhury Lahiri. Part V: Embodied Marginalities or New Marginalities. 15. Being Eunuch, the Violence Faced by Hijra’s Involved in Sex Work—A Case Study/Rekha Pande. 16. Transition of Elderly from Home to Old-Age Home: A Narrative on Marginalisation and Seclusion in Urban India/Smita Verma. 17. Rights of Physically Disabled Persons: An Inclusive Approach/Sadhna Gupta. Part VI: Political Geography of Violence. 18. Statelessness or Permanent Rehabilitation: Issues Relating to the Chakmas of Chittagong Hill Tract in Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura/Anindita Ghoshal. 19. Historical Memory and the Method of Collaboration: Doomed Marginal Resistance Movements?/Javaid Iqbal Bhat.
This volume engages with the renewed focus on various forms of persisting and new marginalities in globalising India. The persistence of hunger in pockets of India; forcible land acquisitions and their impact on deprived sections of society; the effects of urban relocations; material deprivation of minority groups and tribes as a result of conflicts; continuing caste discrimination; reported cases of atrocities against lower castes and tribes; regional disparities; gendered forms of exclusion and those related to disability and many other conditions suggest the need to rethink notions and practices of marginality and exclusion in India. This volume critiques the principal ways of thinking about marginalities, which primarily consist of a focus on normative principles, and brings into focus the chasm between such principles and subjective notions and experiences of marginality and injustice. The uniqueness of this edited volume is that it connects theoretical perspectives with empirical case studies and discussions, and cases of exclusion are discussed within an overall inclusive and integrated framework. This is a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, students, public policy formulators and for social innovators from private sectors and non-government organisations.
