| Marginality, addressed in the Indian context, pre-supposes hegemonic powers and their victims. It can often be understood in terms of culture, religion, caste, and gender. Human experience can be part of material relationships, and in order to subjugate others, society can often create false consciousness by valorizing certain perceptions, which basically serve its own interests. No sphere of human experience can be exempt from the manipulative agencies of any society. History gives ample examples of how societal constructers are perpetuated only to suit its own agenda. In Western civilization, for example, perception of Jews is seen through the prism of Christian anti- Semitism. For more than two thousand years, the Jews have been perceived as anti-Christian usurers, pawnbrokers, and seditionists and therefore they were pushed beyond the mainstream of Western society. In such a scenario: |