ABSTRACT
In any discourse on development, the ideas of core and periphery hold crucial importance. Sociological comprehension enables shedding of the light on the implication of development as an outcome (centrality/marginality) and as the process (centralisation/marginalisation) of involved human lives. In a country like India where ‘diversity' knows no bounds, there are prevailing situations reflecting privileged and subjugated scenarios among the human population. There are people for whom the criteria of ethnicity, gender, religion, and physical ability act as a source for creating ‘otherness' and hence subjected to domination by those who could exercise the same criteria as a virtue for themselves. Knowing is an inevitable exercise for changing the reality as it may provide the insight for heralding any change if there is such a desire. Any attempt to know about marginality as a reality tends to look for its ontological and epistemological aspects.
