Becoming Minority

Jyotirmaya Tripathy is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. His broad area of interest is cultural studies, particularly in the questions of identity and representation. He has published in these areas in journals like Social Semiotics, Development in Practice, Journal of Developing Societies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, etc.Sudarsan Padmanabhan received his PhD from University of South Florida and worked at Kenyon College, Ohio, USA, before joining the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2007. He specializes in social and political philosophy, and Indian philosophy and culture. His research interest lies in the confluence of law, democracy, and ethics in the public sphere. He has published in these domains in various journals and edited volumes including the Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsI : THE MAKING OF MINORITYBecoming a Minority Category - Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan PadmanabhanContextualizing Minority: The Production of Difference and Sameness in Europe - Barbara FranzRe-Turning the Idea of Minority: Going beyond the Politics of Recognition - Lajwanti ChataniII : THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCEManufacturing Blackness at the Turn of 20th-Century France - Abdoulaye GueyeThe Constitution of the Swedish Sámi People: Swedish Sámi Policy and the Justification of the Inner Colonization of Sweden - Ulf MörkenstamInstitutional Change and Identity Shift: The Case of Contemporary Scotland - Sherrill StroscheinThe European Minority Rights Regime and the Turkish/Muslim Minority of Western Thrace - Apostolos AgnantopoulosCultural War of Values: The Proliferation of Moral Identities in the Danish Public Sphere - Peter HervikBecoming a Minority: Ethno-Manufacturing in The Netherlands - Paul Mutsaers, Hans Siebers and Arie de RuijterThe Specter of Communalism and the Eugenic Solution to Britain’s Immigration Problem - Gëzim AlpionIII : THE INDIAN EXPERIENCEMinority Question in India - Bishnu N MohapatraThe Politics of Hurt Religious Feelings: The Minority as Emotional Subject in India - Mohamed MehdiThe Indian State and the Minority’s Right to Culture - Malavika MenonWaqf and Urban Space: Production of Minority Identity in Hyderabad’s Old City - Shireen MirzaThe Fragmented Minor: Tamil Identity and the Politics of Authenticity - Anjana RaghavanIndex

The book is an effort to provide answers to the vexing issues of minority and minortisation. It addresses a common platform from where both India and Europe can articulate themselves vis-à-vis their minority practices....the book is reader-specific and meant essentially for policy makers and research scholars in social sciences.