Abstract
This essay is written in a style inspired by autoethnography. It is based on a conversation with Mr. Ravindra Sharma, a Gandhian artisanal thinker. It brings forth an Indian indigenous view on “worker” and “marginalisation”. It takes seriously the anthropologist Marilyn Strathern’s call for appreciating the other’s ontology as likely one of merographic connections. The essay suggests that in the Indian indigenous worldview a worker is a whole being, not just labour power and marginalization is the tearing up a wholistic ontological existence in society and the constitution of economy, society, market etc., as autonomous spheres with their distinctive means of governance through processes of development. This process by eliminating countervailing power leaves open sections of society to exploitation and marginalization. This reduces the individual, his/her family and community to mere anonymous workers lacking in skills.
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