Sujata Patel

Minority Studies (Oip)

Herausgeber: Robinson, Rowena

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In India, the minority logic has been inherited from the Independence struggle and Partition history, and ratified by provisions in favour of minorities in the Constitution. Yet, the process of minority identity formation at the ground level, and the complex and changing dynamics of state and legal institutions in these constructions, is worthy of closer analysis. How does modern law create and condition minority identity? How do groups manipulate and project a certain identity? What is the relation of caste, gender, or ethnic associations with minority identity? What happens when a group considered part of the majority demands minority status? The current discourse on minorities in India is just beginning to explore these intriguing questions. Minority Studies, the first volume in the new series brings together a group of scholars across disciplinary boundaries to tackle a host of core issues related to the identification, definition, and categorization of religious minorities, foregrounding the significant and immediate social categories of caste, gender, ethnicity, and class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780199487288
• ISBN-10: 0199487286
• Artikelnr.: 52958260

Autorenporträt

Rowena Robinson is Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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