*Research Scholar, Dept. of Social Work, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga
**Research Scholar, Dept. of Sociology, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga
***Assistant Professor, Deptt. Of English, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, Shimoga
Online published on 7 June, 2014.
Contemporary Indian intellectuals engages and attempts to notice the difference of the excluded Social groups registering difference as it focusses on the excluded power relations aiming for the empowerment of the voiceless resisting the dominant tone of the ‘pedagogy of the powerful’. Power and Politics have remained vital categories even in the research processes, especially working with the marginalised and powerless groups like the core Dalits, Adivasis, and Tribal suffering from all kinds of Social exclusion for Development and Social change. This paper focuses on the issues of the Developing Sociology of Citizenship and Marginality discourses in India. The paper has noted the efforts of the poor and the marginalized groups redefining the claims of their legitimated natural rights in the Contemporary Indian democracy for making the claims of Citizenship relevant to the Civil society in a developing society, for ensuring the role of Citizenship in resolving the crisis of the marginalized groups in a developing Social world.
Marginality, Development, Democracy