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Caste, State and Society: Degrees of Democracy in North India

Caste, State and Society: Degrees of Democracy in North India

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General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0367359847
ISBN13: 9780367359843
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Oct 8 2020
Pages: 314
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the politics of social, cultural and political recognition of caste groups in North India. It explores the factors that make some castes politically influential, while others continue to remain socially and economically marginalized. The author situates these groups within democracy and utilizes a multicultural framework to understand why and when various castes have sought to achieve recognition and redistributive justice; to what extent different castes have been able to achieve these goals; and how civil society has engaged with these issues. Unlike dominant discourses on caste and democracy, which give primacy to electoral/procedural democracy over the substantive one, this book views the relationship between castes and the state in both dimensions of democracy.

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