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This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to rethink the multiple dimensions of marginality – political, societal, economic, cultural, legal and spatial. It explores their new representations in colonial and post-colonial India. Departing from extant analyses of experiences of marginalization in diverse social groups, it proposes to problematize the conceptualization of marginality, focusing on its evolution through space and time. A relational position, marginality, it is argued, presupposes a confrontation with centrality or the ‘mainstream’ within a common discourse of knowledge and power. The volume emphasizes that the process of marginalization is not a ‘marginal’ phenomenon and draws attention to the historical processes which determine, establish and perpetuate the margins. The book reflects on varied aspects of evolving marginalities – structural, cultural and psychological – in South Asia in diverse temporal, spatial or societal contexts. It examines the discourses, institutional mechanisms and economic processes within which marginalities are located. This work will be an important read for scholars and researchers of history, anthropology, subaltern studies, exclusion studies, South Asian history, post-colonial studies, political studies, Indian history, cultural studies and history, in general.

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Author:   Anna Bochkovskaya ,  Sanjukta Das Gupta ,  Amit Prakash
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9781032438658

ISBN 10:   1032438657
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   18 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Multiple dimensions of marginalities Part 1: Interpretation: Contexts and Texts 1. At the margins of the empire-making project: Masters, servants and the household in colonial India 2. Marginalizing histories, historicizing marginalization: Representations of Adivasi pasts in Jharkhand 3. Representing ‘Slices in Time’: ‘Marginal’ scriptures in contemporary Punjab Part 2: Representation: Discourses and Themes 4. Surviving in the margins: The politics of disowning citizens in contemporary South Asian fiction 5. Exploring marginalities: Male domestic workers and intimate labour in two films on colonial and postcolonial Bengal Part 3: Identification: Societies and Genders 6. Victimized in the name of protection: Revisiting institutional reforms for marginalized women in shelter homes 7. Transgressing boundaries and (re)constructing identity: The Hijra community in post-colonial Rajasthan Part 4: (Non)recognition: Rights and Options 8. Marginalization through empowerment: The policy of reservation for Scheduled Castes in India 9. Cultural rights and minorities in India 10. Intersectional marginality: Compounding structural violence against Dalit Christians in India Part 5: Exclusion: New Forms and Locations 11. Spheres of marginality in the urban space: Exploring interconnections in a global city 12. Liberal script and new marginalities: The case of tribals in Jharkhand

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Anna Bochkovskaya is Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Sanjukta Das Gupta is Associate Professor of Indian History in the Department of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Amit Prakash is Professor of Law and Governance at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

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