Politics of Caste Dynamics
Author | : Ambrose Pinto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : 9789386516152 |
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Author | : Ambrose Pinto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : 9789386516152 |
Author | : Dag-Erik Berg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108855601 |
Dynamics of Caste and Law breaks new ground in understanding how caste and law relate in India's democratic order. Caste has become a visible phenomenon often associated with discrimination, inequality and politics in India and globally. India's constitutional democracy has had a remarkable goal of creating equality in a context of caste. Despite constitutional promises with equal opportunities for the lower castes and outlawing of untouchability at the time of independence, recurring atrocities and inadequate implementation of law have called for rethinking and legal change. This book sheds new light on why caste oppression persists by using new theoretical perspectives as well as Bhimrao Ambedkar's concepts of the caste system. Focusing on struggles among India's Dalits, the castes formerly known as untouchables, the book draws on a rich material and explains, among other things, mechanisms of oppression and how powerful actors may gain influence in institutions of law and state.
Author | : Vasudha Dalmia |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521516250 |
A wide-ranging and truly interdisciplinary guide to understanding the relationship between India's colonial past and globalized present.
Author | : Christophe Jaffrelot |
Publisher | : Primus Books |
Total Pages | : 835 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9380607040 |
Following independence, the Nehruvian approach to socialism in India rested on three pillars: secularism and democracy in the political domain, state intervention in the economy, and diplomatic non-alignment mitigated by pro-Soviet leanings after the 1960s. These features defined a distinct "Indian model," if not the country's political identity. From this starting point, Christophe Jaffrelot traces the transformation of India throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, particularly the 1980s and 90s. The world's largest democracy has sustained itself by embracing not only the vernacular politicians of linguistic states, but also Dalits and "Other Backward Classes," or OBCs. The simultaneous--and related--rise of Hindu nationalism has put minorities--and secularism--on the defensive. In many ways the rule of law has been placed on trial as well. The liberalization of the economy has resulted in growth, yet not necessarily development, and India has acquired a new global status, becoming an emerging power intent on political and economic partnerships with Asia and the West. The traditional Nehruvian system is giving way to a less cohesive though more active India, a country that has become what it is against all odds. Jaffrelot maps this tumultuous journey, exploring the role of religion, caste, and politics in determining the fabric of a modern democratic state.
Author | : Anupama Rao |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520943376 |
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.
Author | : Ayan Guha |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2022-09-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004514562 |
The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics: Chronicling Continuity and Change critically engages with the political dynamics of caste in West Bengal and explores the reasons for the relative insignificance of caste as a political category in the state.
Author | : Alexander Lee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108489907 |
From Hierarchy to Ethnicity discusses the origins of politicized caste identities in twentieth-century India, and how they evolved over time.
Author | : Chintamani Lakshmanna |
Publisher | : Bombay : Nachiketa Publications |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susan Bayly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2001-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521798426 |
The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Author | : Nicholas B. Dirks |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2011-10-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400840945 |
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.