Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond

Uwe Skoda, Kenneth Bo Nielsen And Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger

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A collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond.

‘Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond’ examines the applicability of the concept of social exclusion in contemporary India, and addresses the following questions: How does an increasingly liberalised Indian economy contribute to processes of social inclusion and exclusion and to the reproduction of poverty and inequality? To what extent does the deepening of Indian democracy offer hitherto marginalised social groups new opportunities for pursuing strategies of inclusion? And how does ‘development’ alter the social terrain on which inequalities are negotiated? These and related discussions form the focal points of the volume. Importantly, the contributors deal explicitly with the simultaneity of processes of exclusion and inclusion, and with their entangled manifestation in social life. By applying the concept of social exclusion to concrete empirical case studies, the contributors expand conceptual horizons by keeping in mind that neither exclusion nor inclusion can be considered without its ‘alter ego’. The volume also challenges narrow conceptualisations of social inclusion and exclusion in terms of singular factors such as caste, policy or the economy. This collaborative endeavour and cross-disciplinary approach, which brings together younger and more established scholars, facilitates a deeper understanding of complex social and political processes in contemporary India.

Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Navigating Exclusion, Engineering Inclusion – Uwe Skoda and Kenneth Bo Nielsen; PART I: SPACES AND VALUES: 2. Cosmopolitanism or Iatrogenesis? Reflections on Religious Plurality, Censorship and Disciplinary Orientations – Kathinka Frøystad; 3. Dependent Husbands: Reflections on Marginal Masculinities – Radhika Chopra; 4. Exclusion and Inclusion: Navigation Strategies among Hindus in the Diaspora – A Case Study from Denmark – Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger; PART II: COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS: 5. In Search of Development: Muslims and Electoral Politics in an Indian State  – Kenneth Bo Nielsen; 6. Exclusion as Common Denominator: Investigating ‘Dalit-hood’ – Guro W. Samuelsen; 7. Inclusion of the Excluded Groups through Panchayati Raj: Electoral Democracy in Uttar Pradesh  – Satendra Kumar; 8. Making Sikkim More Inclusive: An Insider’s View of the Role of Committees and Commissions  – Tanka B. Subba; 9. Encountering ‘Inclusion’ and Exclusion in Postindustrial Mumbai: A Study of Muslim Ex-millworkers’ Occupational Choices  – Sumeet Mhaskar; PART III: RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT: 10. Dams, Development and the Exclusion of Indigenous Groups: A Case from Odisha – Deepak Kumar Behera; 11. ‘Solutions Emerge When Everyone Works Together’: Experiences of Social Inclusion in Watershed Management Committees in Karnataka – Devanshu Chakravarti, Sarah Byrne and Jane Carter; 12. The Death of Shankar: Social Exclusion and Tuberculosis in a Poor Neighbourhood in Bhubaneswar, Odisha – Jens Seeberg

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• Social sciences

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• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780857283245
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Navigating Social Exclusion and
Inclusion in Contemporary
India and Beyond Navigating Social Exclusion and
Inclusion in Contemporary
India and Beyond
Structures, Agents, Practices
Edited by
Uwe Skoda, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and
Marianne Qvortrup FibigerAnthem Press
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Navigating social exclusion and inclusion in contemporary India and
beyond : structures, agents, practices / edited by Uwe Skoda, Kenneth
Bo Nielsen and Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger.
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-85728-322-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Marginality, Social–India. 2. Social integration–India. 3.
India–Social conditions–21st century. I. Skoda, Uwe, 1973–
HN684.N38 2013
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This title is also available as an eBook.CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
List of Contributors ix
1. Introduction: Navigating Exclusion, Engineering Inclusion 1
Uwe Skoda and Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Part I: Spaces and Values
2. Cosmopolitanism or Iatrogenesis? Refections on Religious
Plurality, Censorship and Disciplinary Orientations 19
Kathinka Frøystad
3. Dependent Husbands: Refections on Marginal Masculinities 41
Radhika Chopra
4. Exclusion and Inclusion: Navigation Strategies among Hindus
in the Diaspora – A Case Study from Denmark 55
Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger
Part II: Communities and Politics
5. In Search of Development: Muslims and Electoral Politics
in an Indian State 73
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
6. Exclusion as Common Denominator: Investigating ‘Dalit-hood’ 97
Guro W. Samuelsen
7. Inclusion of the Excluded Groups through Panchayati Raj:
Electoral Democracy in Uttar Pradesh 119
Satendra Kumar
8. Making Sikkim More Inclusive: An Insider’s View of
the Role of Committees and Commissions 135
Tanka B. Subba
9. Encountering ‘Inclusion’ and Exclusion in Postindustrial Mumbai:
A Study of Muslim Ex-millworkers’ Occupational Choices 149
Sumeet Mhaskarvi NAVIGATING SOCIAL Ex CLUSION AND INCLUSION
Part III: Resources and Development
10. Dams, Development and the Exclusion of Indigenous Groups:
A Case from Odisha 167
Deepak Kumar Behera
11. ‘Solutions Emerge When Everyone Works Together’: Experiences
of Social Inclusion in Watershed Management Committees in Karnataka 189
Devanshu Chakravarti, Sarah Byrne and Jane Carter
12. The Death of Shankar: Social Exclusion and Tuberculosis in a Poor
Neighbourhood in Bhubaneswar, Odisha 207
Jens SeebergACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editors would like to thank the Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus (CISCA) at
Aarhus University, Denmark, for hosting a workshop – funded by the European Union –
bringing together several of the contributors in this volume on 16–17 June 2010. We are
also grateful for the support extended by the Aarhus University Research Foundation,
which proved instrumental in speeding up the editorial process. Special thanks are due
to those authors who joined the process in its later phases, enabling us to secure a wider
thematic coverage. We would also like to thank Janka Romero, Tej P. S. Sood and Rob
Reddick at Anthem Press for their effciency and kind encouragement along the way.
The chapter by Kenneth Bo Nielsen entitled ‘In Search of Development: Muslims and
Electoral Politics in an Indian State’ was published in Forum for Development Studies 38 (3):
345–70 in 2011 (© Norwegian Institute of International Affairs – NUPI). It is reprinted
here with the kind permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd on behalf of NUPI.LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
About the Editors
Kenneth Bo Nielsen is a research fellow at the Centre for Development and the
Environment, University of Oslo, Norway. An anthropologist by training, Nielsen’s
research has focused on rural social movements in West Bengal, India, and on the Hindu
diaspora in Denmark. He has published widely on Indian politics and development in
international journals and in edited book volumes. Nielsen is the coeditor of Trysts with
Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia (Anthem Press 2011) and Development and Environment:
Practices, Theories, Policies (Akademika Publishing 2012).
Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger is associate professor of religious studies at Aarhus
University. Her work focuses on Hinduism in general (and in Denmark in particular),
Shaktism, religious plurality and diversity as well as on religion in cultural encounters.
She has conducted extensive feld research among Srilankan Tamil Hindus in Denmark,
and in Mauritius, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya and England. Her recent publications include
‘When the Hindu-goddess Moves to Denmark – The Establishment of a Śaktā-tradition’
in The Bulletin for the Study of Religion (2012); ‘Wilderness as a Necessary Feature in Hindu
Religion’ in Wilderness in Mythology and Religion: New Approaches to the Study of Religious
Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature, edited by Laura Feldt (2012); and ‘Religious
Diversity and Pluralism: Empirical Data and Theoretical Refections from the Danish
Pluralism Project’ in Journal of Contemporary Religion (2012).
Uwe Skoda is associate professor of South Asian studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.
He is currently working on transformations of kingship, combining an anthropological
approach with historical perspectives, and focusing particularly on Odisha and
CentralEastern India. His research interests also include Hindu nationalism and politics and
political anthropology more generally as well as social organization and kinship. He is the
author of The Aghria: A Peasant Caste on a Tribal Frontier (Manohar 2005) and the coeditor
of Power Plays: Politics, Rituals and Performances in South Asia (Weissensee 2008), State, Power
and Violence (Harrossowitz 2010) and Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia
(Anthem Press 2011).
Contributors
Deepak Kumar Behera is professor and head of the Department of Anthropology,
Sambalpur University, India. He has to his credit more than 100 research publications x NAVIGATING SOCIAL Ex CLUSION AND INCLUSION
in reputed journals and edited volumes. Most of his publications are in the felds of
tribal studies, social exclusion and childhood. Professor Behera has authored or edited
seventeen volumes, including eight volumes of Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies (Concept
Publishing Company), edited jointly with Professor Georg Pfeffer of the Free University
of Berlin, Germany. Other publications include Contemporary Society: Childhood and Complex
Order (Manak Publication 1996), Children and Childhood in Contemporary Societies (Kamla-Raj
Enterprise 1998), ‘Public Images of Children’ (special issue of Journal of Social Sciences
1999) and Childhoods in South Asia (Pearson Education 2007). Behera is the founding
chairman and member of the Permanent Council of the IUAES Commission on
Children, Youth and Childhood, and a member of the International Advisory Board of
the journals Sociological Analysis, Boyhood Studies, Practicing Anthropology and Acta Academica.
Sarah Byrne is a PhD student and researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Drawing on the felds of political geography, political anthropology and political ecology,
her research explores the negotiation and constitution of public authority and its relation
to governmental and territorial strategies, including the production of ‘stateness’,
contestations over political and forest borders, and practices of resistance and compromise.
Entitled ‘Negotiating Public Authority: Local Political and Local Development in
MidWestern Nepal Between “War” and “Transition”’, Byrne’s PhD is funded by the Swiss
National Science Foundation. Byrne previously studied at the University of Toronto
and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and
worked as a governance advisor with Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation.
Jane Carter works as gender and social equity c