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Minority Studies (Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society)

Minority Studies (Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society)

Edited by Rowena Robinson
436 495 (12% off)
ISBN 13
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9780199487288
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2019
Minority Studies, the first volume in the series, ‘Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society’, looks at issues related to the identification, definition, and categorization of religious minorities and foregrounding of the significant social categories of caste, gender, ethnicity, and class. Drawing from fieldwork based on historically grounded and ethnographically researched locations, it examines how modern law creates and conditions minority identity, how groups manipulate the ground-level situation to project a certain identity at a particular point of time, and what happens when a group considered as part of the ‘majority’ demands ‘minority’ status.