Marginality, Exclusion and Social Justice

Book Details

• Author: Ashish Saxena

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: 2013

• ISBN: 9788131605684

• Pages: 352

• Cover: Hardcover

• Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches

About the Book
This insightful volume offers a comprehensive critique and meticulous documentation of marginality in South Asia, with particular emphasis on the Indian context. Exploring the dialectics between social justice and systemic exclusion, the book presents an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how various marginalized communities—such as Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, women, minorities, the differently-abled, and the culturally deprived—experience injustice across the time-space continuum.

Through a detailed exploration of lived experiences and scholarly perspectives, the book sheds light on the intersectionality of caste, class, gender, and ethnicity in shaping marginalization. It combines theory and grounded narratives to challenge mainstream discourse and advance the conversation around inclusive policies, postcolonial critique, and advocacy for social justice.

Contributors include distinguished scholars like Nandu Ram, Vivek Kumar, Saraswati Raju, Abdulrahim P. Vijapur, Suresh Babu G.S., Bupinder Zutshi, Krishna Mohan, and Mathew Joseph C., among others. Essays cover a wide range of issues, from the educational status of Indian Muslims to tribal displacement, gender violence, and the health challenges faced by Dalits.

This book is a vital resource for scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners in the fields of sociology, political science, development studies, and human rights, particularly those invested in postcolonial and subaltern discourses in the South Asian context.

Contents Include:

1. Marginalized Groups and Human Rights in India

2. Towards an Epistemology of Social Exclusion

3. Educational Backwardness of Indian Muslims

4. Tribal and Peasant Resistance

5. Gender Justice and Violence

6. Disability and Cultural Capital

7. State Policy and Structural Exclusion
   ...and more.

About the Author
Ashish Saxena is a seasoned academician with over thirteen years of teaching and research experience. He currently teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Allahabad. He has authored Shifting Manifestations: Scheduled Castes in Jammu and Kashmir and published extensively in journals like EPW, Eastern Anthropologist, Radical Humanist, and the International Journal of Asian Studies, contributing to critical debates on rural sociology, subaltern studies, and development.