Class, Caste, Gender

✍ Scribed by Manoranjan Mohanty (editor)

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 440
• Series: Readings in Indian Government and Politics series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Contemporary India’s political landscape is characterized by a great deal of social upheaval. This is the result of growing democratic consciousness which is increasingly conflicting with the forces of domination, authoritarianism and hegemony. Against this backdrop, this volume provides an understanding of these forces in both historical and analytical terms. In particular, the seminal essays gathered here explore the specificities of the crucial social categories of class, caste and gender, while simultaneously drawing attention to the arenas in which they intersect.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface by the Series Editors
Preface
1 - Introduction: Dimensions of Power and Social Transformation
Part I: Class Structure and the State
2 - Caste and Agrarian Class: A View from Bihar
3 - The Political Economy of the Economic Reform Strategy: The Role of the Indian Capitalist Class
4 - The Working Class Movement in India: Trade Unions and the State
Part II: Caste Domination and Political Power
5 - Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
6 - Caste in Modern India
7 - Caste in Indian Politics
8 - Reservations Policy Revisited
9 - Caste or Class or Caste–Class: A Study in Dalitbahujan Consciousness and Struggles in Andhra Pradesh in 1980s
10 - The Language of Dalitbahujan Political Discourse
Part III: Gender Inequality and Social Change
11 - Conceptualizing Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India: Gender, Caste, Class and State
12 - An Overview of the Status of Women in India
13 - Women and People’s Movement: A Space within the Struggle
14 - Gender Inequality and Women’s Agency
15 - Conclusion: Social Movements in a Creative Society
Appendix
Select Readings
About the Editor and Contributors
Index