MARGINAL COMMUNITIES: Issues and Challenges

Marginalization is a multidimensional, multicausal, historical phenomenon. In Indian society, there are many marginal communities which are victims of the prevailing social milieu. Besides Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women, this includes, rural poor, manual workers in unorganized sectors, sex workers, transgenders, blue-collar workers, old age people, child labourers, migrant population, urban poor, slum-dwellers, differently-abled persons and others in the category of religious and linguistic minority groups. These communities are given very low position in social strata and are subjected to all types of exploitation, discrimination, disparities, oppression, violence, civil rights violation, ill-treatment and deprivations. This volume is a collection of articles on the marginal communities covering different perspectives of their issues, problems and challenges. All contributors have focused on common thinking on marginalized communities because the nation cannot achieve the target of inclusive development without the development of marginal communities.