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India's Silent Revolution - The Rise of the Lower Castes (Paperback, New edition)
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India's Silent Revolution - The Rise of the Lower Castes (Paperback, New edition)
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India has long been dominated by the upper castes, most notably the
Brahmins and the warrior castes whose influence permeates society
at every level. Since the 1960s a new assertiveness has
characterized this formerly silenced majority (the lower castes
comprise more than two-thirds of the Indian population). Its
growing political consciousness was first epitomised by Charan
Singh's efforts to build a peasant movement and then by the demand
for job quotas for the low castes that V.P.Singh articulated in the
late 1980s and early 1990s. Today, many official posts are
"reserved" for "Other Backward Classes", namely the lower castes.
India's most populous states, Uttar Pradesh is controlled by lower
caste politicians, as is Bihar, and lower caste representation in
national politics is growing inexorably. The author of this text
argues that this trend constitutes a genuine "democratization" of
India and that the social and economic effects of this "silent
revolution" are bound to mutiply in the years to come.
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