Change and Mobility in Contemporary India: Thinking M. N. Srinivas Today

Synopsis

This book studies caste and community dynamics in India and offers a critical view of social mobility from below. Building on the theories of the eminent sociologist M N Srinivas, the essays in this volume reformulate the debate on caste as they document the changing inter-caste dynamics and caste-based violence in contemporary India. The volume showcases the new language of change in caste relations, articulated mostly from the perspective of the marginalised as experiences, differences, contestations, assertions and as citizenship rights. It focusses on the clash between traditional structures of inequality and the ideals of equality and justice in a liberal, democratic India. It also highlights the persistence of caste and endogamy and the interlocking nature of caste, gender and disability, struggles of ethnic groups and informal workers in the market economy, discrimination in the labour market and the dissolution of dissent in the public sphere. With contributions from leading scholars of social change and development in India and abroad, this volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, minority and subaltern studies, and development studies.

Copyright:

2020

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

232 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000692761

Related ISBNs:

9780429345074, 9781032177090, 9781138334304

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

08/28/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Sobin George, Manohar Yadav and Anand Inbanathan

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Edited by:

Sobin George

Edited by:

Manohar Yadav

Edited by:

Anand Inbanathan