Politics of Exclusions and Inclusions in India

The present volume Politics of Exclusions and Inclusions: Construing Commonalities & Complexities, without stressing on a particular theoretical/conceptual framework and harping on hybridization of methodologies, amalgamates a wide range of issues pertaining to the concepts of social exclusion and inclusion. The twenty one chapters in this volume explore the variations and convergences in the ‘politics of exclusions and inclusions’ as operating in India. Though a good number of the research papers are situated in the East and North East this in no manner makes the objective of this volume on ‘exclusions and inclusions’ a ‘situated knowledge’ rather they serve as the connecting links in the understanding of commonalities and complexities. The contributions in this volume serve as a ready reckoner for researches on social exclusion and inclusive policy, covering themes and issues ranging from epistemologies and pedagogies of exclusion and inclusion, theoretical/philosophical traditions on exclusions/inclusions, debates on applicability and relevance of exclusion and inclusion, exclusions/inclusion versus democratic experience, space, location and exclusion, various bases of exclusions, different levels and magnitudes of Crises originating from exclusionary structures, mechanisms and politics, exclusions and the problems of access to public goods, responses to exclusions and their differing nature, character and content, and, strategies, methods and mechanisms (including policy frameworks) of empowerment and inclusion. The contributions in this volume transcend the bludgeoning theoretical positions on ‘politics of exclusions and inclusions’ and attempt to bring to ‘academic discourse’ the situated experiences and variations in the operation of the same.