Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018)
In Privileged Minorities, Sonja Thomas looks at how a class, caste, and racially privileged minority in India, the Syrian Christians of Kerala, have crafted a particular sort of ‘minority rights’ discourse, defined and mediated through the upholding of brahmanical patriarchy. Rather than assuming th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Nidān
Year: 2022, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 132-135 |
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| Summary: | In Privileged Minorities, Sonja Thomas looks at how a class, caste, and racially privileged minority in India, the Syrian Christians of Kerala, have crafted a particular sort of ‘minority rights’ discourse, defined and mediated through the upholding of brahmanical patriarchy. Rather than assuming the workings of power by documenting caste/ gender-based oppression, Privileged Minorities ‘studies up’, looking at how a community which has historically benefited from brahmanical patriarchy builds political bridges with other privileged groups, organizes to protect their socio-economic interests, and mobilizes itself for causes that both directly and indirectly cut off access to minority ‘others’. |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2022.1 |