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My teacher cannot tell me. My friends have not a clue. I am in such a pickle. What ever shall I do? Have you ever felt like this at school? You just feel that there must be something wrong with you! What would you do if you were never, ever picked by your teacher for anything, no matter how high you put up your hand? Or, if only you knew how to be 'good', then maybe, just maybe you'd be allowed to eat that treat! Find out how, in Pick Me! and...

My teacher cannot tell me. My friends have not a clue. I am in such a pickle. What ever shall I do? Have you ever felt like this at school? You just feel that there must be something wrong with you! What would you do if you were never, ever picked by your teacher for anything, no matter how high you put up your hand? Or, if only you knew how to be 'good', then maybe, just maybe you'd be allowed to eat that treat! Find out how, in Pick Me! and...

In India, the minority logic has been inherited from the Independence struggle and Partition history, and ratified by provisions in favour of minorities in the Constitution. Yet, the process of minority identity formation at the ground level, and the complex and changing dynamics of state and legal institutions in these constructions, is worthy of closer analysis. How does modern law create and condition minority identity? How do groups manipu...

This volume explores the complex issue of religious minorities in India and how they are identified, defined, and categorized by legal and institutional processes. It questions the religious identification of groups and demonstrates problems with such categorization. This is the first volume in the new series, Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society.

The essays in this volume map the course of ethnic conflict and popular Christianity in India. This is a collection of the author's engagement with these issues over the past two decades. The book will help in understanding the condition of minorities, especially Christians, in India.

This book is an ethnographic study of Muslim survivors of ethnic strife in Mumbai and two major cities of Gujarat. Based on narratives of and interviews with Muslim men and women, it tries to understand the world and worldviews of those who have seen and lived through one or several violent confrontations and episodes in their lives. Through engagements with these survivors, the book weaves several stories of devastating loss, the painful and ...