Privileged minorities Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India
/ Sonja Thomas
- 1st ed.
- Telangana Orent Blackswan c2018
- 210 p. ill. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index
Syrian Christians in Kerala, India, although a demographic minority, are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged and have long benefited economically and socially from their privileged position. In this book, the author focuses on Syrian Christian women to illuminate larger questions of multiple oppressions, privilege and subordination, racialization, and religion and secularism in India. Drawing on oral histories, ethnographic interviews, and personal insights, the author employs an intersectional approach and US women of color feminist theory to interrogate the relationships between religious rights and women's rights in Kerala.
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Kerala (India) Social conditions; Women India Kerala Social conditions; Women Social conditions