Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries

Anna Bochkovskaya is Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Sanjukta Das Gupta is Associate Professor of Indian History in the Department of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Amit Prakash is Professor of Law and Governance at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

List of Tables vii About the Authors viii Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Multiple Dimensions of Marginalities 1 ANNA BOCHKOVSKAYA, SANJUKTA DAS GUPTA AND AMIT PRAKASH PART I Interpretation: Contexts and Texts 13 1 At the Margins of the Empire-Making Project: Masters, Servants and the Household in Colonial India 15 SVETLANA SIDOROVA 2 Marginalizing Histories, Historicizing Marginalization: Representations of Adivasi Pasts in Jharkhand 42 SANJUKTA DAS GUPTA 3 Representing ‘Slices in Time’: ‘Marginal’ Scriptures in Contemporary Punjab 62 ANNA BOCHKOVSKAYA PART II Representation: Discourses and Themes 81 4 Surviving in the Margins: The Politics of Disowning Citizens in Contemporary South Asian Fiction 83 DEBJANI BANERJEE 5 Exploring Marginalities: Male Domestic Workers and Intimate Labour in Two Films on Colonial and Post-Colonial Bengal 104 SWAPNA M. BANERJEE PART III Identification: Societies and Genders 121 6 Victimized in the Name of Protection: Revisiting Institutional Reforms for Marginalized Women in Shelter Homes 123 PALLAVI BERI 7 Transgressing Boundaries and (Re)constructing Identity: The Hijra Community in Post-Colonial Rajasthan 142 LEENA SHARMA PART IV (Non)recognition: Rights and Options 159 8 Marginalization Through Empowerment: The Policy of Reservation for Scheduled Castes in India 161 PADMANABH SAMARENDRA 9 Cultural Rights and Minorities in India 180 GHAZALA JAMIL AND FAIZ ULLAH 10 Intersectional Marginality: Compounding Structural Violence Against Dalit Christians in India 200 M. SUDHIR SELVARAJ PART V Exclusion: New Forms and Locations 221 11 Spheres of Marginality in the Urban Space: Exploring Interconnections in a Global City 223 PRIYANKA NUPUR 12 Liberal Script and New Marginalities: The Case of Tribals in Jharkhand 247 AMIT PRAKASH Index 269