000 02174nam a22002777a 4500
008 181025b2017 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020 _a9789386582539
082 _a305.5609 PAR-A
100 _aParulkar, Ashwin
245 _aDispossessed :
_bstories from India's margins /
_cAshwin Parulkar and others
260 _aIndia
_bSpeaking Tiger
_c2017
300 _a242 p.
365 _aINR
_b350.00
500 _aIn 2005, starving members of the Bhuiya clanin one of Bihar’s poorest villages dug up a long-buried dead goat, cooked and ate it. Sixteen people died within days, twelve of them children. Bengali-speaking Muslims who had moved to Rajasthan from West Bengal in the 1970s and ’80s were summarily declared Bangladeshi terrorists in the aftermath of the 2008 Jaipur bomb blasts. They remain stateless in their own country. Landless Lodhas, members of an erstwhile ‘Criminal Tribe’ in Bihar, grapple even today with centuries of shame and dispossession. These stories—along with those of women with mental and physical disabilities in rural areas, homeless men living in Yamuna Pushta, inNew Delhi and patients in a leprosy colonyin Orissa—reveal both stigma and support, harsh lives, an uncaring, corrupt state and moments of resilience. Drawn from interviews and conversations as part of a study on destitution by the Centre for Equity Studies, Dispossessed: Stories from India’s Margins takes a wide-ranging view of what it means to be destitute, displaced and marginalized in contemporary India. Equally importantly, through these personal accounts of their research, the authors explore their own privileges in comparison. Written with sensitivity and care, this is an important book that perceptively questions India’s engagement with the people at its margins and should be essential reading for all.
650 _aMarginality, Social
650 _aPeople with social disabilities
650 _aPoverty
650 _aIndia
650 _aDiscrimination
700 _aSharma, Saba
700 _aShah, Amod
700 _aSethia, Shikha
700 _aJohn, Rhea
700 _aImaan, Anhad
700 _aBaxi, Annie
999 _c32149
_d32149