Class, Caste, Gender
Class, Caste, Gender

Author: Manoranjan Mohanty

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2004-05-24

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9780761996439

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Annotation. This volume of essays looks into the dynamic interconnection of class, caste and gender in the Indian political process. The focus is on interconnection (that is a relationship involving more than one category), while at the same time trying to understand each category by itself. The complex issues of caste, gender and class have been studied through a collection of essays that look into the people's struggle for social equality. Social oppression has been analyzed in the context of protests against such exploitation. Anti-caste movements and women's movements have been studied in much detail. The volume is divided into five sections and well-known specialists have contributed pertinent essays. This important book will contribute immensely in the understanding of the contemporary Indian political process.

Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India
Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India

Author: Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 3030940403

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This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in mobilising patterns and dissident agency in India, the authors present a heterogeneous insurrectional pattern that pivoted around issues of caste, class, religion, land reform, labour, taxation and territorial control, with anti-colonialism movements becoming prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors move beyond this to explore more recent templates of mobilisation which surfaced towards the end of the twentieth century, during India’s liberalisation period. With growing marketisation and technological advancement, unprecedented changes in social relations, growing economic opportunities and cultural transfusion taking place, the country became a ‘New India’ - one which aspired to be a global player in the wider technological public sphere. Tracing the historical trajectories of social movements in India, this book examines recent trends in digitised dissidence and explores new frontiers of protests, providing fresh insights for those researching the history of social movements, South Asian and Indian history and postcolonial studies.

Caste, Class, & Race
Caste, Class, & Race

Author: Oliver Cromwell Cox

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 686

ISBN-13:

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First published in 1948, this pioneering work investigates how racism began and why it remains a persistent problem in the United States, tracing racial inequality to the social and economic system that generates it.

Exploring Social Movements
Exploring Social Movements

Author: Biswajit Ghosh

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-18

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1040032915

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This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements have become an instrument of social change including assertion of identity and protest against marginalisation. This book describes three major domains – conceptual, experiential, and the impact of globalisation on social movements. The volume begins by locating social movements within broad and contemporary social processes and explores the intrinsic and complex patterns of dynamics among state, market, and social movements from a critical sociological perspective. It explains the meaning, basic features, origins and types, leadership and ideology, and perspectives of social movements and probes into major experiences of eight social movements in India, namely, peasant and farmers, tribal, Naxalite and Maoist, Dalit, working class, women, ethnic, and environmental movements. This book also analyses the role of information technology, media, and civil society in the spread and continuation of such movements. The experiences of queer, new religious, anti-systemic, and anti-displacement movements would also help readers understand how globalisation has offered new avenues of protest to diverse sections of the population. Lessons of anti-globalisation movements across the world provide a futuristic perspective in assessing the strength of social movements in a global society. This book will be useful to the students, researchers, and faculty working in the field of political science, sociology, gender studies, and post-colonial contemporary Indian politics in particular. It will also be an invaluable and interesting reading for those interested in South Asian studies.

Caste, Class and Democracy
Caste, Class and Democracy

Author: Vijai P. Singh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1351529927

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This volume is an introduction to the role of caste and class in Indian society, meant to emphasize certain important aspects of Indian society such as continuity and change in caste, economic classes, status of women, status of Harijans, village poli-tics, overseas Indians, and casteism and tribalism. Its theoretical interest is to explain the dynamics of social inequalities in Indian society. All but one of the essays are based on research conducted in India. The other is based on research on Indian plantation workers in Sri Lanka, and included here to demonstrate that the concepts of caste and class are relevant to understanding In-dians who have emigrated to overseas countries.

Ideology, Protest, and Social Mobility
Ideology, Protest, and Social Mobility

Author: Joseph Mathew

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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Time has shown institution of untouchability as a cencer in the body politic of Hinduism. The underdogs of the country had to struggle against various exploitative elements in the society. The ideological component of ther protest and its dynamics had, however, not been clarified in a comprehensive fashion as protests of lower classes are rarely recorded. In the present book, Dr. Joseph Mathew unflods the fascinating story of the awakening of Mahars in Maharashtra and pulayas of Kerala-which represents a landmark in the history of Scheduled Caste Movements in India. This indepth study by the author based on extensive field work analyses the cumulative disabilities of these caste categories in Maharashtra and Kerala at their levels. viz, socio-cultural, political and economic; traces the history of their various organisatiosn and role played by their leaders-particularly the role of Dr. Ambedkar, an exemplary figure of Modern India and the Saviour of Untouchables and his leading Mahars to conversion to Buddhism as a Protest; Mahatma Gandhi and Aiyyankali the millitant Dalit Panthers of Maharashtra: the Pulayas struggles and the attitude of the Caste Hindus towards these struggles.