Zoya Hasan

Post-Mandal, the demand for reservations by various groups has become a consistent feature of Indian politics. Yet, the focus remains on caste, with little attention paid to the under-representation of religious minorities in India. The book takes up the case of relative disadvantage and interogates the multiple and overlapping dimensions of deprivation. Hasan argues that, in view of the comparative evidence avaiable, presently excluded and disadvantaged groups should also qualify for affirmative action. This book will interest students and scholars of Indian politics, sociology, and history.

Castes, Minorities, and Affirmative Action

Politics of Inclusion

This study examines changes in agrarian structure and their impact on politics in western Uttar Pradesh. Emphasis is placed on exploring the social forces as well as the issues involved in political mobilization. The principal aim is to explain the emergence and consolidation of rich peasants and their strategy of mobilization. This volume is important reading for academics in Indian politics and society, social anthropology, political sociology and agrarian studies.

Rural Politics in Western Uttar Pradesh, 1930-1980

Dominance and Mobilisation

Ritu Menon

This survey based study of Muslim women in India seeks to dispel popular misperceptions and stereotypes regarding their status, as well as seriously engage with academic debates on gender and Islam.

A Study of Muslim Women in India

Unequal Citizens

The past few years have seen the street emerge as one of the most volatile and engaging sites of a politics in flux. Mass protests, widespread networks, and quick mobilization in the age of social media have instilled a new life in protests and agitations, engendering an entirely new brand of rights agenda in India today. Grassroots activism along with organized, collective action has influenced several landmark legislations, often resulting in progressive outcomes and policies. Agitation to Legislation finds that such a progression is not so sudden. It examines ways in which social mobilizations influence legislative trajectory, opening up modes of direct engagement between the state and its citizens, between the government and the governed. It simultaneously focuses on political actors and processes that help expand rights and accountability and at the same time resist any attempt to increase representation of under-represented groups. Positive outcomes have depended on political responses and party strategies, either appropriating or reinforcing or disregarding the scale and intensity of public protests and collective action.

Negotiating Equity and Justice in India

Agitation to Legislation

Martha C. Nussbaum

Aziz Z. Huq

Vidhu Verma

All known societies exclude and stigmatize one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify this stigmatization. In this volume, interdisciplinary scholars from India and the United States present a detailed and theoretically pluralistic study of the varieties of stigma that pervade contemporary social and political life. These include prejudice along the axes of caste, race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability,religion, ethnicity, and economic class. Looking forward the authors present legal and policy-based remedies aimed at eliminating pervasive stigma in all of its diverse forms.

Prejudice, Discrimination and Policy in India and the US

The Empire of Disgust

R. Sudarshan

Eswaran Sridharan

An examination of the ideas, practices and controversies surrounding the Indian Constitution.

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