About the Book: Minority Discourse in India: Narrating Centers and Peripheries
Minority discourses provide differential, conceptual and theoretical frameworks
for questions of identity based on gender, caste, race, class and ethnicity, as
well as political and linguistic factors. They underline social and cultural
pluralism in contemporary liberal democratic societies which often homogenize
citizenship while simultaneously upholding discursive master-narratives that
privilege domination and subordination by majority groups. Modern secular states
attempt to transcend pluralism through principles of social cohesion while at
the same time ironically organizing ideological categories based on prevailing
ruling classes. Minority Discourses in India: Narrating Centers and Peripheries
makes an effort to investigate varied texts, contexts