Caste-based marginalization is one of the most pressing human rights issues in India, because a major proportion of lower castes and Dalits are still dependent on others for their livelihood. This collection of articles clearly explains how the caste has been taking lead to create marginality in Indian society and how the present caste system has deliberately denied the social, economic, educational, political, moral and legal rights of these marginal groups. Covering subaltern history, this volume emphasizes the need for the right-thinking people, including the government and policymakers, to stay positive despite the negativity and acrimony prevailing in the Indian society and work towards bringing positive changes in the society to bring back the marginalized to the mainstream life. Owing to the paucity of literature on the marginal community, this volume is a small effort to project the plight of the marginalized communities in the Indian context. It brings useful knowledge to teachers, researchers and students, in sociology and other social science subjects to improve their knowledge and promote awareness among the general public about the plight of the marginalized. It further calls for social workers and development planners to work more effectively in developing and implementing governmental initiatives and programmes that seek to empower the marginalized, including Dalits and Adivasis. CONTENTS Introduction / Jagan Karade 1 Globalization and Issues of Core and Periphery: Special Reference to Marginalized Groups in India / P.G. Jogdand 2 Dalits and Globalization / M.H. Makwana 3 Position of Marginalized Communities in Higher Education in India / Praveen K. Jadhav 4 Media and the Deprived Communities: The Various Aspects of Atrocities Committed against Dalits in India / Yagati Chinna Rao 5 Bollywood and Dalits / Maitreya 6 Marginalization due to Culture: Socioeconomic Marginalization of Waghya and Murali / Jagan Karade and Avinash Bhale 7 Thuggees and the Caste System in India: From the Criminal to the Marginal / Vishal G. Jadhav 8 Where the Scheduled Castes are in the Process of Development? A Sociopolitical Analysis / Mohinder Kumar Slariya 9 Politics of Elongated Accommodation and 157 Governmentality: The Subjugation of India’s Denotified, Nomadic, and Semi-Nomadic Tribes / Dhanraj A. Patil 10 Empowerment of the Marginalized Section through Panchayati Raj / Ramesh H. Makwana 11 Unread History of an Erstwhile Manual Scavenging 207 Community: From Being an Urban to a Marginalized / K.M. Ziyauddin 12 Occupational Mobility of Self-employed: Among Marginalized Communities / Mahajan ABOUT THE AUTHOR / EDITOR Jagan Karade is a Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. He is also the Co-ordinator of UGC-SAP-DRS-Phase III and Director of the Centre of Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy. He is a Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). Author of four books and eight edited volumes. He has completed two major and four minor research projects funded by the UGC and ICSSR, New Delhi. He is a Board Member of WG-05, Famine and Society, International Sociological Association. He has served as Secretary, the Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi and President of the Marathi Samajshastra Parishad.