Majority groups that regain status after long subordination remain unstudied

Evidence

A case which appears a bit different is that of a majority of a group of people who came to be politically subordinated through force for centuries but later regained their majority group status. We are not aware of studies which explain the intergroup behaviour of 38 Psychology and Developing Societies 31(1) members of a group who are relatively gratified but also carry the memories of collective victimisation due to their subjugation by alien people for many centuries as in the case of the Hindus of India. — R. C. Tripathi, R. Kumar, and V. N. Tripathi, When the Advantaged Feel Victimised, 26

Categorization

  • QUESTION: This is the lacuna the whole book addresses — worth holding as the intellectual hook for evaluating whether the authors actually fill it.