Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond

Uwe Skoda is an associate professor of South Asian studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.Kenneth Bo Nielsen is a research fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo, Norway.Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger is an associate professor in religious studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.

• 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