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Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats
as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past. In
tracing the long career and evolution of intra-caste governance
from 300 BC to the present, it challenges several orthodoxies in
the caste scholarship. Most prominently, it questions the
assumptions of modernization theory that became internalized in the
very definition of caste-based political organisations as caste
became a subject of study in politics in the 1960s and 70s. In
doing this, the book reflects in some detail on the uncomfortable
question of the persistence of caste-based conservatism despite the
current dominance, so to say, of caste-based democratization in the
Indian polity. It tries to make visible the limitations of 'caste
politics from below', as it is being imagined today, making a plea
for a radical re-imagination of caste as an identity that does not
require a self-perpetuation of the primordial aspects of caste to
purse the opportunities offered by modern democracy, but one that
can facilitate the empowerment of caste through the pursuit of the
ameliorations on offer as well as the annihilation of caste, as
eventually mutual goals.
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