"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."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Situating Marginalities in India: An Introduction (Asmita Bhattacharyya, Sudeep Basu)....Pages 3-11 Marginality, Marginalisation and the Idea of Justice (Partha Nath Mukherji)....Pages 13-23 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Rethinking Dalit Marginality: Issues and Contestations (Sudeep Basu)....Pages 27-34 Social Exclusion and the Mindscapes of Caste: A Study of Kendrapara District of Odisha (Suratha Kumar Malik)....Pages 35-49 Front Matter ....Pages 51-51 Displacement and Deprivation in Jharkhand (Pankaj Kumar)....Pages 53-71 The State and the Autochthons: Development Induced Conflict (Binu Sundas)....Pages 73-80 ‘Revisiting Naxalbari’: Narratives of Violence and Exclusions from the Marginal Spaces (Arnab Roy Chowdhury)....Pages 81-94 Local Communities in Forest Management: An Evaluation (Anurima Mukherjee Basu)....Pages 95-109 Land Laws, Ownership and Tribal Identity: The Manipur Experience (Ngamjahao Kipgen)....Pages 111-126 Migrant Tribe in a Globalising City: Educational Views, Aspirations and Choices of the Santals in Kolkata (Ruchira Das)....Pages 127-141 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 The Marginal Locations of Muslim Women on Various Sites in India (Esita Sur)....Pages 145-155 Reassessing the Socio-economic Condition Among Muslim and Hindus: Comparative Accounts (Santanu Panda)....Pages 157-172 Unmasking the Masked Gendered Sociability: A Case of the Indian Software Industry (Asmita Bhattacharyya)....Pages 173-191 Negotiating Marginality: Women Activists in the People’s Science Movement, Kerala (Shoma Choudhury Lahiri)....Pages 193-204 Front Matter ....Pages 205-205 Being Eunuch, the Violence Faced by Hijra’s Involved in Sex Work—A Case Study (Rekha Pande)....Pages 207-228 Transition of Elderly from Home to Old-Age Home: A Narrative on Marginalisation and Seclusion in Urban India (Smita Verma)....Pages 229-245 Rights of Physically Disabled Persons: An Inclusive Approach (Sadhna Gupta)....Pages 247-260 Front Matter ....Pages 261-261 Statelessness or Permanent Rehabilitation: Issues Relating to the Chakmas of Chittagong Hill Tract in Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura (Anindita Ghoshal)....Pages 263-277 Historical Memory and the Method of Collaboration: Doomed Marginal Resistance Movements? (Javaid Iqbal Bhat)....Pages 279-293 Back Matter ....Pages 295-297
