The Minority Conundrum Living In Majoritarian Times Tanweer Fazal by Tanweer Fazal 9780670092956, 0670092959, B086WM1RHS instant download after payment.

The second volume in the Rethinking India series
explicates what it means to be a minority in majoritarian times. The
contributors identify vulnerabilities that encumber the quest for the
realization of substantive citizenship by minority groups. The essays
deal with educational attainments, employment prospects in a liberalized
economy, possibilities of equal opportunity, violence of the state and
vigilante groups, emerging questions of citizenship and employment,
linking language with the material life of its speakers, and the
receding political voice of minorities amidst a majoritarian upswing.

Also
examined is the concept of minority being inextricably bound with two
allied ideas equally foundational to the vision of the Indian Republic:
secularism and nationalism. The three together form a conceptual whole
to the extent that none finds its manifestation without reference to the
other two. The take-offs of the minority question in India include the
archetypal nationalist's disapproval of the very endurance of the
subject post-Independence. The secular-modernists and the Hindutva
nationalists converge in prescribing assimilation-one into a modernist
project, the other into a national culture defined by Sanskritic
Hinduism-while the pluralist vision, tolerant of divergent practices,
follies in assuming cultures and religious observances as frozen. This,
along with several allied issues, forms the heart of this
thought-provoking volume.