Robinson

Minority Studies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the complex issue of religious minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It questions the religious identification of groups and demonstrates problems with such categorization. This is the first volume in the new series, Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198078548
• ISBN-10: 0198078544
• Artikelnr.: 34740687

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