Class, caste, gender (Sage Publications, 2004)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422) and index
Dimensions of power and social transformation / Manoranjan Mohanty -- Caste and agrarian class / Anand Chakravarti -- The political economy of the economic reform strategy / Prabhat Patnaik, C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh -- The working class movement in India / Sharit K. Bhowmik -- Castes in India / B.R. Ambedkar -- Caste in modern India / M.N. Srinivas -- Caste in Indian politics / Rajni Kothari -- Reservations policy revisited / D.L. Sheth -- Caste or class or caste-class / Kancha Ilaiah -- The language of Dalitbahujan political discourse / Gopal Guru -- Conceptualizing Brahmanical patriarchy in early India / Uma Chakravarti -- An overview of the status of women in India / Neera Desai and Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- Women and people's movement / Ilina Sen -- Gender inequality and women's agency / Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen -- Social movements in a creative society / Manoranjan Mohanty
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