Social Studies Foundation - Empowering Disadvantaged Communities

National Seminar at JNU, Delhi

The current discourse on Marginalization and Social Inclusion that prevails in the present-day Indian society, mainly revolves around foreign inspired ideas. The two-day seminar, held on 13^th and 14^th April, 2022 was an attempt to find out solutions to the Indian problems in Indian soil. This was a different attempt as most of the problems and their solutions, which the country is facing, are being looked at from western or left ideology perspective. Western or Left perception has some inherent limitations in understanding Indian problems and their solutions.

The seminar was jointly organized with the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. The current discourse has been critical of Indian socio-cultural thought and has tried to undermine the rich social and cultural aspects of the inclusive thought that existed in the ancient, medieval and modern Indian society.