Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries

List of Tables vii About the Authors viii Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Multiple Dimensions of Marginalities 1 ANNA BOCHKOVSKAYA, SANJUKTA DAS GUPTA AND AMIT PRAKASH PART I Interpretation: Contexts and Texts 13 1 At the Margins of the Empire-Making Project: Masters, Servants and the Household in Colonial India 15 SVETLANA SIDOROVA 2 Marginalizing Histories, Historicizing Marginalization: Representations of Adivasi Pasts in Jharkhand 42 SANJUKTA DAS GUPTA 3 Representing 'Slices in Time': 'Marginal' Scriptures in Contemporary Punjab 62 ANNA BOCHKOVSKAYA PART II Representation: Discourses and Themes 81 4 Surviving in the Margins: The Politics of Disowning Citizens in Contemporary South Asian Fiction 83 DEBJANI BANERJEE 5 Exploring Marginalities: Male Domestic Workers and Intimate Labour in Two Films on Colonial and Post-Colonial Bengal 104 SWAPNA M. BANERJEE PART III Identification: Societies and Genders 121 6 Victimized in the Name of Protection: Revisiting Institutional Reforms for Marginalized Women in Shelter Homes 123 PALLAVI BERI 7 Transgressing Boundaries and (Re)constructing Identity: The Hijra Community in Post-Colonial Rajasthan 142 LEENA SHARMA PART IV (Non)recognition: Rights and Options 159 8 Marginalization Through Empowerment: The Policy of Reservation for Scheduled Castes in India 161 PADMANABH SAMARENDRA 9 Cultural Rights and Minorities in India 180 GHAZALA JAMIL AND FAIZ ULLAH 10 Intersectional Marginality: Compounding Structural Violence Against Dalit Christians in India 200 M. SUDHIR SELVARAJ PART V Exclusion: New Forms and Locations 221 11 Spheres of Marginality in the Urban Space: Exploring Interconnections in a Global City 223 PRIYANKA NUPUR 12 Liberal Script and New Marginalities: The Case of Tribals in Jharkhand 247 AMIT PRAKASH Index 269