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Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries: Colonial and Post-Colonial India book cover

1st Edition

Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries Colonial and Post-Colonial India

Edited By Anna Bochkovskaya, Sanjukta Das Gupta, Amit Prakash Copyright 2025
288 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

288 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

288 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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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,... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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