Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries (eBook, ePUB)

Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Redaktion: Bochkovskaya, Anna; Prakash, Amit; Das Gupta, Sanjukta

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to rethink the multiple dimensions of marginality - political, societal, economic, cultural, legal and spatial. It explores their new representations in colonial and post-colonial India. Departing from extant analyses of experiences of marginalization in diverse social groups, it proposes to problematize the conceptualization of marginality, focusing on its evolution through space and time. A relational position, marginality, it is argued, presupposes a confrontation with centrality or the 'mainstream' within a common discourse of knowledge and power. The volume emphasizes that the process of marginalization is not a 'marginal' phenomenon and draws attention to the historical processes which determine, establish and perpetuate the margins.

The book reflects on varied aspects of evolving marginalities - structural, cultural and psychological - in South Asia in diverse temporal, spatial or societal contexts. It examines the discourses, institutional mechanisms and economic processes within which marginalities are located. This work will be an important read for scholars and researchers of history, anthropology, subaltern studies, exclusion studies, South Asian history, post-colonial studies, political studies, Indian history, cultural studies and history, in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040270875
• Artikelnr.: 72477310

Autorenporträt

Anna Bochkovskaya is Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Sanjukta Das Gupta is Associate Professor of Indian History in the Department of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Amit Prakash is Professor of Law and Governance at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Inhaltsangabe

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