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The Minority Conundrum - Living in Majoritarian Times (Hardcover)
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The Minority Conundrum - Living in Majoritarian Times (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R383
Discovery Miles 3 830
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The second volume in the Rethinking India series explicates what it
means to be a minority in majoritarian times. The contributors
identify vulnerabilities that encumber the quest for the
realization of substantive citizenship by minority groups. The
essays deal with educational attainments, employment prospects in a
liberalized economy, possibilities of equal opportunity, violence
of the state and vigilante groups, emerging questions of
citizenship and employment, linking language with the material life
of its speakers, and the receding political voice of minorities
amidst a majoritarian upswing. Also examined is the concept of
minority being inextricably bound with two allied ideas equally
foundational to the vision of the Indian Republic: secularism and
nationalism. The three together form a conceptual whole to the
extent that none finds its manifestation without reference to the
other two. The take-offs of the minority question in India include
the archetypal nationalist's disapproval of the very endurance of
the subject post-Independence. The secular-modernists and the
Hindutva nationalists converge in prescribing assimilation-one into
a modernist project, the other into a national culture defined by
Sanskritic Hinduism-while the pluralist vision, tolerant of
divergent practices, follies in assuming cultures and religious
observances as frozen. This, along with several allied issues,
forms the heart of this thought-provoking volume.
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