The Caste Question
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The Caste Question
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Author : Anupama Rao
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2009-10-13
The Caste Question written by Anupama Rao and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Social Science categories.
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.
Education And Caste In India
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Author : Ghanshyam Shah
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-06-04
Education And Caste In India written by Ghanshyam Shah and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-04 with Social Science categories.
Seven decades since Indian Independence, education takes the centre stage in every major discussion on development, especially when we talk about social exclusion, Dalits and reservations today. This book examines social inclusion in the education sector in India for Scheduled Castes (SCs). The volume: · Foregrounds the historical struggles of the SCs to understand why the quest for education is so central to shaping SC consciousness and aspirations; · Works with exhaustive state-level studies with a view to assessing commonalities and differences in the educational status of SCs today; · Takes stock of the policymaking and extent of implementations across Indian states to understand the challenges faced in different scenarios; · Seeks to analyse the differential in existing economic conditions, and other structural constraints, in relation to access to quality educational facilities; · Examines the social perceptions and experiences of SC students as they live now. A major study, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of education, sociology and social anthropology, development studies and South Asian studies.
The Caste Question
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Author : Anupama Rao
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Caste Question written by Anupama Rao and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Dalits categories.
The Caste Question
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Author : Anupama Rao
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2009-10-13
The Caste Question written by Anupama Rao and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with History categories.
"A powerful book on caste, a subject that has dramatic importance not only for the history of democracy in modern India, but for the general discussion on the interferences of social inequalities and cultural exclusions. The Caste Question goes beyond the usual antitheses of localism and globalism, and illustrates a decisive notion of intensive universality."—Etienne Balibar "A sustained and probing analysis of the modern history of caste in Western India, connecting issues of gender, personhood, property, and politics to facts of oppression and inequality. This is the most politically and theoretically engaged book on caste to have come out in a long time."—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Habitations of Modernity "A profound reflection, at once historically rich and theoretically nuanced, on the nature of political modernity itself."—John Comaroff, co-author (with Jean Comaroff) of Of Revelation and Revolution "Rao is entirely convincing in this brilliant and audacious re-evaluation of political modernity in India through the perspective of anti-caste struggles."—Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Re-Structuring of an Empire
Caste In Question
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Author : Dipankar Gupta
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2004-12-08
Caste In Question written by Dipankar Gupta and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-08 with Social Science categories.
This important volume provides an alternative perspective on caste. It demonstrates that the traditional view of caste—as a single hierarchy, with Brahmins at the top and the untouchable castes at the bottom—is no longer valid. From politics to gender to economic interaction, the contributors reveal how the erstwhile single, pure hierarchical order is constantly being questioned and weakened./-//-/The essays in this volume argue for a different conceptualisation of caste—one that would take into account the need for caste assertion and dignity as well as notions of hierarchy. The contributors show that while pride in one’s caste identity is an important feature of the caste order, this is not incompatible with contesting notions of hierarchy. Caste is now better seen in terms, first, of discrete identities and then in terms of multiple and contesting hierarchies. Using contemporary experiences, this exciting volume reflects on received wisdom concerning theories of caste and provides an entirely fresh perspective.
Annihilation Of Caste
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Author : B.R. Ambedkar
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2014-10-07
Annihilation Of Caste written by B.R. Ambedkar and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-07 with History categories.
B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. It offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition in "The Doctor and the Saint," examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar's anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be hobbled by systemic inequality.
The Pariah Problem
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Author : Rupa Viswanath
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-08
The Pariah Problem written by Rupa Viswanath and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-08 with History categories.
Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"—with consequences that continue to be felt today. Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890s and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. The missionaries' vision of the Pariahs' suffering as being a result of Hindu religious prejudice, however, obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political–economic system depended on unfree Pariah labor. Both the Indian public and colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination.
The Decline Of The Caste Question
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Author : Dwaipayan Sen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-26
The Decline Of The Caste Question written by Dwaipayan Sen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-26 with History categories.
Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.
Caste In Contemporary India
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Author : SurinderS. Jodhka
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Caste In Contemporary India written by SurinderS. Jodhka and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Social Science categories.
Caste is a contested terrain in India's society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. Presenting rich empirical findings across north India, it presents an original perspective on the reasons for the persistence of caste in India today.
From Hierarchy To Ethnicity
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Author : Alexander Lee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-27
From Hierarchy To Ethnicity written by Alexander Lee and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-27 with History categories.
From Hierarchy to Ethnicity discusses the origins of politicized caste identities in twentieth-century India, and how they evolved over time.