Reading Minorities in India: Forms and Perspectives

Contents: 1. Introduction/K.M. Ziyauddin. 2. Minority Studies in India: An Observation of the Realities/Imtiaz Ahmad. 3. Sociology of Minority Studies: Context and Problems/K.M. Ziyauddin. 4. Is There a Discourse on Ethnicities and Minorities in Contemporary India?/Rowena Robinson. 5. Muslim Women Entrepreneurs: Towards the Changing Pattern of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice in Usage of Health Services in Rural Nadia West Bengal/Sharmistha Bhattacharjee. 6. Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Xenophobia: Portrayal of Muslims in Global Media/Fowzia Afaq and Danish Nabi. 7. Religion and Attitudes towards the Use of Contraception: A Study of Male Students of MANUU, Hyderabad/Md. Tarique Enam and Md. Raghib Baber. 8. Asna Ashri Shia Muslim Women in India: A Minority within the Minority/Azra Abidi. 9. Mapping the Relationship between the Manipuri Muslims and Meiteis in the Pre-Colonial Period/Md. Chingiz Khan. 10. Emotion and Stereotypes: A Study on Left-behind Muslim Wives in Northern Kerala/Nusarath Jahan P. 11. Education, Employment, and Caste among Muslims of Kashmir: An Empirical Study/Rabiya Yaseen Bazaz and Mohammad Akram. 12. Health and Occupation of Minority Group: A Study of Funeral Workers from Dom Community in Varanasi/Sarita Kumari. 13. Migrants as Minorities: A Study on the Health Prospects of Construction Workers in Malappuram District in Kerala/N.C. Sreekumar. 14. Islamic Feminism in India: An Overview/Tarannum Siddiqui. 15. Discrimination and Segregation in Urban Landscape: Emerging Dimensions/Md. Tabrez Alam. 16. Refugees as Minorities: Rohingya Refugees in India, Possibilities and Challenges/Mohamed Musthafa KT. 17. Systemic Violence and Structural Marginalisation of Minorities: The Case of Jharkhand/Md. Afroz. 18. Contemporary Racism in India: A Case Study of North-Eastern Students in Delhi/Nemthianngai Guite and Meijianthaipou Ruangmei. 19. 'Chinky': Stereotyping India's North-East/Bhargavi Das. 20. Campaign for Muslim Reservation in Telangana: A Critical Reflection/Afroz Alam. 21. Role of Caste, Occupation, and Exclusion in Rural Economy: A Study of the Life of Handloom Weavers of Telangana/J. Rani Ratna Prabha and D. Srinivas. India is a country made up of people from many cultural backgrounds and religious groups who practise a variety of understandings and ways of life. India s inhabitants have never been homogeneous based on caste, class, religion, area, ethnicity, or linguistic ties. Debates and narratives regarding the everyday lives of ethnic, religious, linguistic and cultural minorities are misinterpreted in encounters and understanding in public space. Political interventions impact problems and contentious politics in India exacerbate minority problems. How two separate minority groups are discriminated against and oppressed in society are vastly different. The only thing they have in common is that they are treated differently and less than the rest of the population. This book examines how India s minorities become victims of marginalisation and exclusion from the larger political and social structure. The book focuses on understanding the shifting paradigm in academic understanding of a few minority populations that have been disregarded. Further, sexual minorities (such as LGBTQ), women of colour (within the same race), and immigrant or refugee groups are examples of groups that deserve to be examined in a shared forum. Anyone interested in reading about minorities in India will find food for thought in the book as there is a substantial contribution in forms and perspectives throughout this anthology.…