symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor of Sociology, JNU; currently Director, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Delhi

• MINORITY  POLITICS: THE SHIFTING TERMS OF POLICY DISCOURSE
  D.L. Sheth, Honorary Senior Fellow, CSDS; currently National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi

• THE MORAL MEANINGS OF MAJORITIES
  Satish Deshpande, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics

• ISSUES BEFORE THE COURTS
  Kamala Sankaran, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi

• NEW PRACTICES OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
  Chandan Gowda, Associate Professor of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion, National Law School of India, Bangalore

• MUSLIM DEPRIVATION AND THE DEBATE ON EQUALITY
  Zoya Hasan, Professor of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• FROM SYMBOLIC VICTIMS TO POLITICAL AGENTS
  Nida Kirmani, Research Associate, Religions and Development Research Programme, University of Birmingham

• UNDERSTANDING MUSLIM VOTER BEHAVIOUR
  Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris; with Virginie Dutoya, Radhika Kanchana and Gayatri Rathore, PhD students at Sciences Po (Paris)

• CITIZENS OR VICTIMS?
  Dipankar Gupta, Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi

•  MUSLIMS AS A POLITICAL COMMUNITY
  Hilal Ahmed, Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• EMPLOYMENT AMONG NON-MUSLIM  MINORITIES
  Preet Rustagi, Senior Fellow, Institute for Human Development, Delhi 

• THE MAKING OF A CHRISTIAN MINORITY
  Savio Abreu, Research Scholar, Xavier Centre for Historical Research, Goa; and Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Bombay

• THE DOUBLY MARGINALIZED
  Gail Omvedt, Professor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and Development, IGNOU, Delhi

• WHAT MAKES SIKHS A MINORITY
  Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor of Sociology, JNU, Delhi 

• BOOKS 
  Reviewed by Ajay K. Mehra, Nazima Parveen, Sobin George, Anirudh Deshpande, Suman Bhattacharjea and Sumail S. Sidhu 

• COMMENT
  Received from R. Uma Maheshwari, journalist, Hyderabad and Partha Chatterjee, critic and filmmaker, Delhi

• COMMUNICATION
  Received from R.P. Singh, Rajnandgaon

• IN MEMORIAM
  Meenakshi Mukherjee 1937-2009

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