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.

9780295743820 9780295743844

2018002613


Syriac Christians--Social conditions.--India--Kerala
Minorities--Social conditions.--India--Kerala
Women--Social conditions.--India--Kerala


Kerala (India)--Social conditions.

DS432.S965 / T47 2018

305.681