Why Minority Discourses?

This academic year, the department felt the need to organize a national seminar that would integrate the sheer force of our varied encounters as Indian academicians and researchers with issues of marginalisation in India. Departments across the length and breadth of our universities, research institutions and organizations, N.G.Os and action groups continue to address issues of caste and gender, the status of  religious, linguistic and political minorities, native cultures, indigenous narratives and numerous identities that are relegated to abjecthood and thereby to the periphery of an assumed cohesive central social order. The National Seminar on “Understanding Minority discourses in India”, slated for 12 & 13 January 2015, is a singular attempt at addressing the pluralism of our subaltern narratives as a nation without blurring the specificities of oppression that give rise to revolutions of resistance.