Presenter
Dutta Pronita - Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, United KingdomPanel
32 – Negotiating Gender and Identity: Ethnographies on Education in South AsiaAbstract
The state of minority communities in South Asia demonstrates a long-practiced norm of discrimination and insecurity. The partition of the subcontinent along religious lines, accompanying communal violence produced a politics that reproduced religious differences (Guhathakurta, 2012). It created a legacy in Bangladesh that formed the backdrop to episodic bouts of oppression of minorities (Goswami & Nasreen, 2003). Post-poll violence, mob attacks, evicting them from their property, the non-fulfilment of pleas for justice by the system in power, and continuing silent exodus from Bangladesh – all the incidents focus on growing vulnerability of Hindus in the country (Pattanaik, 2013; Minority Rights Group International, 2016).
