Rethinking Social Exclusion in India: Castes, Communities and the State

ISBN-13: 9780367885847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 174 str.

Minoru Mio; Abhijit Dasgupta

Opis

This book analyses different aspects of social exclusion in contemporary India. The book shows that a shift has taken place in the discourse on inclusion and exclusion. Chapters by experts in their fields explore issues of inclusion and exclusion that merit special attention such as dalit identity, ethnicity, territoriality and minorities.

Spis treści

Introduction, Minoru Mio and Abhijit Dasgupa　

Part I: New Forms of Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary India

1. Conditions of 'Developmental Democracy: New Logic of Inclusion and Exclusion in Globalizing India, Akio Tanabe

2. Streets as Space of Social Inclusion and Exclusion: The Case of Street Vendors in Ahmadabad, Ayako Iwatani

3. The Inclusion and Exclusion of Minorities in India: The Case of Gujarati Muslims, Kazuya Nakamizo

Part II: Religious Identities and Dalits

4. Belonging and Being: Unpacking Dalit Christian Identity, Anderson H. M. Jeremiah

5. Excluding Themselves? Dalits Converting to Buddhism, Kenta Funahashi

6. Affirmative Action and Exclusion of the Muslim Outcastes in West Bengal, Abhijit Dasgupta

7. Marginalization and Subversive Religious Rites: Worship of Dharmathakur in West Bengal, Rita Banerjee

Part III: Ethnicity and Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in the North-eastern Frontier

8. The Forest as a Site of Conflict: Struggles over Indigenous Territory in the Bodo Areas of Assam, Makiko Kimura

9. Between NREGA and a Hard Place: Insurgency, Citizenship and Entitlements among Indian Migrant Labourers in Nagaland, Michael Heneise

10. Moral Geographies: The Problem of Sovereignty and Indigeneity amongst the Nagas, Arko Longkumer

O autorze

Minoru Mio is Associate Professor at the Centre for Research Development and Director of the Centre for Contemporary India Area Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.

Abhijit Dasgupta is Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India.