Caste, Class and Democracy

Caste, Class and Democracy
ISBN-10
1351529927
ISBN-13
9781351529921
Category
History
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2017-07-12
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Vijai P. Singh

Description

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.

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