Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India

Author:   Sonja Thomas ,  K. Sivaramakrishnan ,  Padma Kaimal ,  Anand A. Yang
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
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9780295743844


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 November 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India


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Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position. Focusing on Syrian Christian women, Sonja Thomas explores how this community illuminates larger questions of multiple oppressions, privilege and subordination, racialization, and religion and secularism in India. In Privileged Minorities, Thomas examines a wide range of sources, including oral histories, ethnographic interviews, and legislative assembly debates, to interrogate the relationships between religious rights and women's rights in Kerala. Using an intersectional approach, and US women of color feminist theory, she demonstrates the ways that race, caste, gender, religion, and politics are inextricably intertwined, with power and privilege working in complex and nuanced ways. By attending to the ways in which inequalities within groups shape very different experiences of religious and political movements in feminist and rights-based activism, Thomas lays the groundwork for imagining new feminist solidarities across religions, castes, races, and classes.

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Author:   Sonja Thomas ,  K. Sivaramakrishnan ,  Padma Kaimal ,  Anand A. Yang
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780295743844


ISBN 10:   0295743840
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Privileged Minorities successfully problematizes the politics of minority rights, interrogating whether numerical minority status equates to sociopolitical disadvantage...[A] crucial text for the expert and non-expert alike... * Religious Studies Review *


"""Privileged Minorities successfully problematizes the politics of minority rights, interrogating whether numerical minority status equates to sociopolitical disadvantage...[A] crucial text for the expert and non-expert alike..."""


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Sonja Thomas is assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College.

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