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- Title: Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India
- Author : Sonja Thomas
- Release Date : January 05, 2018
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3804 KB
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The Syrian Christians of Kerala are considered “traditional,” or “native” Christians in India. They trace their conversion to the year 52CE, when St. Thomas reportedly converted Hindu Brahmins to Christianity. Although Christians are demographically a minority in India, the Syrian Christians are not a marginalised community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position.
In Privileged Minorities, Sonja Thomas questions the assumed link between numerical minorities and political vulnerability. She explores how this community sheds light on larger questions of multiple oppressions, privilege and subordination, racialization, and religion and secularism in India.
Thomas examines a wide range of sources, including clothing, oral histories, interviews, and legislative assembly debates, to question the relationships between religious rights and women's rights. Using an intersectional approach and US women of colour feminist theory, she demonstrates the ways that race, caste, gender, religion, and politics are inextricably connected, giving rise to both alliances across upper-caste/middle-class communities and dissimilar experiences amongst women in minority rights movements.
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