Overview
Captures comprehensive insights into marginality in India
Deals with diverse perspectives across disciplines, themes and regions covering India
Includes debates on and challenges the normative principles of marginality
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Conceptual Considerations
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Marginalities of Yore: Caste
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Development, Displacement and the Tribal Question
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Minority and Gendered Positions: An Intersectional Perspective
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Embodied Marginalities or New Marginalities
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Asmita Bhattacharyya is Teacher-In-Charge & Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore.
Dr. Sudeep Basu is Assistant Professor at Centre for Studies in Social Management, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marginalities in India
Book Subtitle: Themes and Perspectives
Editors: Asmita Bhattacharyya, Sudeep Basu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5215-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5214-9Published: 28 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5343-7Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5215-6Published: 20 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 297
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Asian Politics, Cultural Policy and Politics