Minority Studies (OIP)
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2nd Edition
Published on 9. April 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-19-948728-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores the issue of minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It examines how modern law creates and conditions minority identity and also how groups manipulate the ground-level situation to project a certain identity at a particular point of time. When more than one category applies to a group, and such categorizations become the basis for the struggle for rights, the politics of identity become even more complex. The volume specifically focuses on 'religious' minorities, questioning the religious identification of groups and showing that the construction of minority groups in religious terms is difficult to achieve given the existence of several, and sometimes contradictory, loyalties and identities. The essays address the minority issue by engaging with different minority communities in India. These also question the relationship of minority identities to caste, gender, and tribal identity. This is the new paperback edition.
Reviews / Votes
The volume explores the tenuous and often contentious relationships between minority groups' resoluteness on their cultural peculiarities, the persisting ides of a monolithic nation-state that invariable tends to view difference as deviance. Alongside, it marks a significant departure that many contributors rely on field data to probe the very category of minorities per se?its normative postures, definitional accuracies and propensity towards reifying otherwise fluid identities. The volume suggests that the process of the production of minority and majority identities implicates colonial and post-colonial statecraft, census enumeration, legal pronouncements, and also mobilisations on ground...the contributions encompass a wide range of subjects, cases and approaches, yet commonality of themes and arguments holds them together.Tanweer Fazal, Contributions to Indian Sociology 50:3 (2016)
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
NA
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-948728-8 (9780199487288)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Rowena Robinson is Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction, Rowena Robinson 1. India and the Concept of a Multinational Federation, Michel Seymour
2. Making Minority Identities: Gender, State, and Muslim Personal Law, Rina Verma Williams
3. Scheduled Castes, Christians, and Muslims: The Politics of Macro-majorities and Micro-minorities, Laura Dudley Jenkins
4. Representing the 'Minority', Farhana Ibrahim
5. Buddhists: The Political Dynamics of Conversion and Caste, Joseph M.T.
6. Christian and Tribal: The Dynamics of Scheduled Tribe Status in the Field, Joseph Marianus Kujur
7. Minorities and the Politics of Conversion: With Special Attention to Indian Christianity, Chad M. Bauman and Richard F. Young
8. The Parsi Minority: Ethics and the Spirit of Indian Modernity, Murzban Jal
9. The Curious Case of the Ramakrishna Mission: The Politics of Minority Identity, Sipra Mukherjee
10. Sikh Minority Identity Formation: Nation and Politics in Post-colonial India, Natasha Behl
11. From Inclusive to Exclusive: Changing Ingredients of Muslim Identity in Bombay Cinema, Yousuf Saeed
12. The Violence of Security: Hindutva's Lethal Imaginaries, Dibyesh Anand Notes on Contributors
2. Making Minority Identities: Gender, State, and Muslim Personal Law, Rina Verma Williams
3. Scheduled Castes, Christians, and Muslims: The Politics of Macro-majorities and Micro-minorities, Laura Dudley Jenkins
4. Representing the 'Minority', Farhana Ibrahim
5. Buddhists: The Political Dynamics of Conversion and Caste, Joseph M.T.
6. Christian and Tribal: The Dynamics of Scheduled Tribe Status in the Field, Joseph Marianus Kujur
7. Minorities and the Politics of Conversion: With Special Attention to Indian Christianity, Chad M. Bauman and Richard F. Young
8. The Parsi Minority: Ethics and the Spirit of Indian Modernity, Murzban Jal
9. The Curious Case of the Ramakrishna Mission: The Politics of Minority Identity, Sipra Mukherjee
10. Sikh Minority Identity Formation: Nation and Politics in Post-colonial India, Natasha Behl
11. From Inclusive to Exclusive: Changing Ingredients of Muslim Identity in Bombay Cinema, Yousuf Saeed
12. The Violence of Security: Hindutva's Lethal Imaginaries, Dibyesh Anand Notes on Contributors