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  • Stepping into the Elite

    Trajectories of Social Achievement in India,France, and the United States

    by Jules Naudet ...
    Translated by Renuka George ...
    The experience of shifting from one social class to another—from a dominated group to a dominant group—raises the question of how the upwardly mobile person relates to his/her group of origin. Stepping into the Elite traces the particular ways in which upwardly mobile people in India, France, and the United States—countries embodying three distinct stratification systems—make sense of this change. ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Mapping the Elite

    Power, Privilege, and Inequality

    Edited by Surinder S. Jodhka, Jules Naudet ...
    India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically poor in the world today, it is home to a sizeable number of thriving rich and flourishing middle classes. They are reshaping the country’s popular image and its self-imagination. Equally important are its political dynamics. With increasing participation ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Caste

    by Surinder S. Jodhka, Jules Naudet ...
    Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a branch of anthropology, suddenly began to be seen as a complex reality deeply embedded in a range of institutions and social ... Read more

    $144.99 CAD

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  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    by Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Read more

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  • Caste and Democratic Politics in India

    by GHANSHYAM SHAH ...
    The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But this has not happened over the fifty-odd years since Indian independence, and shows little sign of happening in the near future. Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is possible without a thorough understanding of the complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to bring about ... Read more

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  • The Culturalization of Caste in India

    Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

    by Balmurli Natrajan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the system that gave rise to it and adapts to new demands of capitalism and democracy.Based on original ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Dalit Feminist Theory

    A Reader

    Edited by Sunaina Arya, Aakash Singh Rathore ...
    Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm, namely, that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing ... Read more

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  • Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal

    Identities and Mobilization after 1990

    Edited by Mahendra Lawoti, Susan Hangen ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state. This book analyzes the rapid rise in ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict since 1990, the dynamics and trajectories of these movements, and their ... Read more

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  • Dalit Studies

    Edited by Ramnarayan S. Rawat, K. Satyanarayana ...
    The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dalit intellectuals and leaders have shaped emancipatory politics in modern India. Moving beyond the anticolonialism/nationalism binary that dominates the study of India, the contributors assess the benefits of colonial modernity and place ... Read more

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  • Civility in Crisis

    Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India

    Edited by Suryakant Waghmore, Hugo Gorringe ...
    This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India. This concept helps analyse why democratic consolidation translates into limited justice and minimal equality, along with increased exclusion and ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Social Exclusion in India

    Democracy at the Crossroads

    Edited by Harihar Bhattacharyya, Partha Sarkar, Angshuman Kar ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities, marginalized and deprived. Democratization has led to the inclusion of the previously excluded in the political process. While the problems of exclusion ... Read more

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