{"product_id":"privileged-minorities-syrian-christianity-gender-and-minority-rights-in-postcolonial-india-9789352875184","title":"Privileged Minorities: Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sonja Thomas\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePrivileged Minorities\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrivileged Minorities\u003c\/em\u003e asks not only \u003cem\u003eif\u003c\/em\u003e women benefit from the struggle for minority rights, but also \u003cem\u003ewhich women\u003c\/em\u003e are in a position to benefit, and \u003cem\u003ewhat sort\u003c\/em\u003e of benefit it is. By focusing on inequalities within groups and alliances across others, Thomas lays the groundwork for imagining how new feminist solidarities across religions, castes, races, and classes can be achieved.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to students and scholars of feminist studies, religious studies, anthropology and sociology. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616510042263,"sku":"9789352875184","price":1212.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789352875184.webp?v=1769294982","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/privileged-minorities-syrian-christianity-gender-and-minority-rights-in-postcolonial-india-9789352875184","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}