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Privileged minorities : Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India /

Thomas, Sonja,

Privileged minorities : Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India / Sonja Thomas. - ix, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Global South Asia .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index.

Syrian Christians and "God's Own Country" -- Clothes Reading: Communal and Secular Clothing "Choices" and Women's Mobility in Kerala -- Aryans and Dravidians: Syrian Christian Mythistories and Intersectional Racialized Oppression -- Who Are the Minorities?: Gender, Minority Rights Protesting, and the 1959 Liberation Struggle -- A Life without Religion: Textbooks, Morality, and Protesting across Religious Divides -- Conclusion: Postsecular Feminisms and the Charismatic Movement.

ISBN: 9780295743820 9780295743844

LCCN: 2018002613

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Syriac Christians--Social conditions.--India--Kerala
Minorities--Social conditions.--India--Kerala
Women--Social conditions.--India--Kerala

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Kerala (India)--Social conditions.

LC Class. No.: DS432.S965 / T47 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 305.681