Between Rights and Realities: Insecurity, Stigma and Marginalization Among Irani Women in the Light of Ambedkar's Vision

Between Rights and Realities: Insecurity, Stigma and Marginalization Among Irani Women in the Light of Ambedkar's Vision | Zenodo Skip to main Communities My dashboard Log in Sign up Zenodo is currently experiencing slowness and intermittent outages due to heavy automated traffic from bots and AI crawlers. We are aware of the problem, and our team is focused on stabilizing the service. Thank you for your patience. AKSHARASURYA JOURNAL Published April 30, 2026 | Version v1 Journal article Open Between Rights and Realities: Insecurity, Stigma and Marginalization Among Irani Women in the Light of Ambedkar's Vision Authors/Creators Ghazaala Parveen Shaukath Azim Description Women’s empowerment in India is often articulated through constitutional guarantees of equality and justice; however, its lived realization remains uneven across marginalized communities. This paper examines the experiences of Irani Muslim women, a micro-minority group largely absent from mainstream academic discourse. Drawing upon Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s framework of dignity, equality, and constitutional morality, the study explores how insecurity, stigma, and social exclusion shape their everyday lives. Using a qualitative and interpretive approach based on secondary sources and some observational insights, the paper engages with theories of social exclusion (Thorat and Kumar 2008), stigma (Goffman 1963), and capability deprivation (Sen 1999). It also situates the Irani community within broader histories of migration, cultural hybridity, and marginality (Haneda 1997; Hodgson 1974). The paper argues that Irani women occupy a position of “internal outsiders” (Mamdani 2020), where legal inclusion coexists with social exclusion. It concludes that empowerment cannot be reduced to formal rights and calls for an Ambedkarite rethinking of inclusion grounded in lived dignity. Files 12. Ghazaala Parveen & Dr. Shaukath Azim.pdf Files (447.4 kB) Name Size Download all 12. Ghazaala Parveen & Dr. Shaukath Azim.pdf md5:1796f88cc5fc98003b709cc9d6299cd0 447.4 kB Preview Download 27 Views 16 Downloads Show more details All versions This version Views Total views 27 27 Downloads Total downloads 16 16 Data volume Total data volume 8.1 MB 8.1 MB More info on how stats are collected.... Versions External resources Indexed in OpenAIRE Communities Keywords and subjects Keywords Irani Women Social Exclusion Ambedkar Insecurity Stigma Marginalization Micro-Minority Details DOI DOI Badge DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19633554 Markdown [](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19633554) reStructuredText .. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19633554.svg :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19633554 HTML <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19633554"><img src="https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19633554.svg" alt="DOI"></a> Image URL https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19633554.svg Target URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19633554 Resource type Journal article Publisher Mahesh M. Published in AKSHARASURYA JOURNAL, 15(04), 81 to 88, ISSN: 2583-620X, 2026. Languages English Rights License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International The Creative Commons Attribution license allows re-distribution and re-use of a licensed work on the condition that the creator is appropriately credited. Read more Citation Export Technical metadata Created May 5, 2026 Modified May 5, 2026 Jump up About About Policies Infrastructure Principles Projects Roadmap Contact Blog Blog Support Help FAQ Developers REST API OAI-PMH Contribute GitHub Donate Funded by Powered by CERN Data Centre & InvenioRDM Status Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms of Use This site uses cookies. Find out more on how we use cookies Accept all cookies Accept only essential cookies

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