Rethinking Social Exclusion in India: Castes, Communities and the State

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Part I New forms of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India
	1 Conditions of ‘developmental democracy’: new logic of inclusion and exclusion in globalizing India
	2 Streets as spaces of social inclusion and exclusion: the case of street vendors in Ahmedabad
	3 The nation-states and exclusion of minorities in India: the case of Gujarati Muslims
Part II Religious identities and Dalits
	4 Belonging and being: unpacking Dalit Christian identity
	5 Excluding themselves? Dalits converting to Buddhism
	6 Affirmative action and exclusion of the Muslim outcastes in West Bengal
	7 Marginalization and subversive religious rites: worship of Dharmathakur in West Bengal
Part III Ethnicity and politics of inclusion and exclusion in the north-eastern frontier
	8 The forest as a site of conflict: struggles over Indigenous territory in the Bodo areas of Assam
	9 Insurgency, citizenship, and entitlements amongst Indian migrant labourers in Nagaland
	10 Moral geographies: the problem of sovereignty and indigeneity amongst the Nagas
Index