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Intersectional marginality: Compounding structural violence against Dalit Christians in India
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2024
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© 2024 Routledge. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Interrogating marginalities across disciplinary boundaries: Colonial and Post-Colonial India. on 18 December 2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003571216
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The limited literature on anti-Christian violence in India focuses on physical forms of violence. This chapter instead shows how the experience of structural violence faced by Dalit Christians is compounded due to the intersecting marginalities of religion and caste. Particularly, this chapter focuses on the structural violence experienced from the state, in the form of the imposition of anti-conversion laws, and the denial of state resources to Dalit Christians such as affirmative action policies. This chapter argues that as the Hindutva ideology has become further embedded in India’s political-legal structure, the situation of structural violence has deepened and compounded.
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Selvaraj MS (2024) Intersectional marginality: Compounding structural violence against Dalit Christians in India. In: Bochkovskaya A, Das Gupta S and Prakash A (Eds.) Interrogating marginalities across disciplinary boundaries: Colonial and Post-Colonial India. London: Routledge.
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The full-text of this article will be released for public view at the end of the publisher embargo on 18 June 2026.