Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond

'Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond' contains 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. The volume combines a broad range of approaches to challenge 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