This volume engages with the renewed focus on various forms of persisting and new marginalities
in globalising India. The persistence of hunger in pockets of India forcible land acquisitions
and their impact on deprived sections of society the effects of urban relocations material
deprivation of minority groups and tribes as a result of conflicts continuing caste
discrimination reported cases of atrocities against lower castes and tribes regional
disparities gendered forms of exclusion and those related to disability and many other
conditions suggest the need to rethink notions and practices of marginality and exclusion in
India. This volume critiques the principal ways of thinking about marginalities which
primarily consist of a focus on normative principles and brings into focus the chasm between
such principles and subjective notions and experiences of marginality and injustice. The
uniqueness of this edited volume is that it connects theoretical perspectives withempirical
case studies and discussions and cases of exclusion are discussed within an overall inclusive
and integrated framework. This is a valuable resource for researchers scholars students
public policy formulators and for social innovators from private sectors and non-government
organisations.
