Minority Studies (OIP) (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This volume explores the issue of minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It examines how modern law creates and conditions minority identity and also how groups manipulate the ground-level situation to project a certain identity at a particular point of time. When more than one category applies to a group, and such categorizations become the basis for the struggle for rights, the politics of identity become even more complex. The volume specifically focuses on 'religious' minorities, questioning the religious identification of groups and showing that the construction of minority groups in religious terms is difficult to achieve given the existence of several, and sometimes contradictory, loyalties and identities. The essays address the minority issue by engaging with different minority communities in India. These also question the relationship of minority identities to caste, gender, and tribal identity. This is the new paperback edition.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society
Release date:	April 2020
Editors:	Rowena Robinson (Professor)
Series editors:	Sujata Patel (Professor)
Dimensions:	212 x 141 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-948728-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > Social mobility
LSN:	0-19-948728-6
Barcode:	9780199487288

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