Reconceptualising Caste, Class, and Tribe

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Author: Kanhaiya Lal Sharma

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Published: 2001

Total Pages: 240

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"The author has questioned the recent conceptualizations of caste, class and tribe based on his understanding of the emergent social situations and new parameters of status-evaluation. New situations, in which different castes and their members find themselves, not only negate caste ideology, but also superimpose a new pattern of social relations on groups, families and individuals. Advent of a tribal elite and a middle class is an offshoot of the role of the state and various movements against the oppressive institutions of exploitation and subjugation. New questions create new situations and social encounters. A changed social milieu does not accept the conventional conceptualisations. Hence, an urge for re-conceptualisation of caste, class and tribe."

Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India

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Author: K. L. Sharma

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Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9789353288105

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Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualising the Indian Village investigates and presents a holistic view of today's rural India by analysing different social aspects such as caste, migration, mobility, education and inequalities. It further studies the village social structure comprising peasants, artisans, weavers and the middle class, and the role of education in reshaping the social life of rural people. It challenges current conceptualisation and understanding of caste as a system, caste mobility, caste-class polarity and country-town divide. This book also argues that caste as a system has ceased to exist, but caste persists discretely as a non-systemic means of appropriation for political and social ends. This interdisciplinary dynamic study reconceptualises the 'village' by explaining the emerging social trends and patterns of social stratification in contemporary rural India.

Caste, Class, and Politics

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Author: Anil H. Bhatt

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Published: 1975

Total Pages: 246

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Monograph presenting a profile of social stratification in modern India - analyses the relationships between political participation, social class and caste status, and attributes manifest social changes to the processes and structures of democracy. Bibliography pp. 210 to 215 and statistical tables.

From Tribe to Caste

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Author: Dev Nathan

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Published: 1997

Total Pages: 476

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Anthropological and historical analysis, in Indian context; papers of a seminar organized by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

Gender, Caste and Class in India

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Author: Neelima Yadav

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Published: 2006

Total Pages: 284

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An analysis of the status of women depends on an understanding of gender relations in a specific context. Examining gender relations as power relations makes clear that these are sustained by the institutions within which gender relations occur. For women, absence of power results in the lack of access to and control over resources, a coercive gender division of labour, devaluation of their work, and a lack of control over their own labour, mobility as well as sexuality and fertility. Gender equality thus demands substantive transformation, a set of policies and conditions created by the state that facilitate the reallocation of resources, thereby increasing women s control over resources that confer power at individual, household, and societal levels.