Change and Mobility in Contemporary India

Thinking M. N. Srinivas Today
Herausgeber: George, Sobin; Institute for Social and Economic Change; Yadav, Manohar

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781032177090
• ISBN-10: 1032177098
• Artikelnr.: 62570625

Autorenporträt

Sobin George is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Study of Social Change and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He is the author of the book Caste Embeddedness of Rural Public Health Services and Work and Health in Informal Economy. He has also published several research articles in national and international journals. Manohar Yadav is a Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. He has published extensively on issues concerning subaltern and marginalised sections of the society in India. He is an active member of Dalit movements in Karnataka Anand Inbanathan was an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru. He has been engaged in research on decentralization and local government and has also worked on health and development as well as on migration. He is the author of the book Migration and Adaptation: Tamils in Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Foreword.
Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Glossary. M N Srinivas and the
Kaleidoscope of Social Change in Modern India: A Critical Introduction,
Sobin George, Manohar Yadav, and Anand Inbanathan Part I - Caste Today:
Resilience, Conflicts and Contestations 1. Some Debatable Arguments about
Changing Inter-Caste Dynamics in Rural India James Manor 2. On the Veracity
of the Processes of Social Mobility and Change in India Manohar Yadav 3.
Recasting Political Mobility: Scheduled Caste Gram Panchayat Presidents and
the 'Dominant Lower Castes' in Tamil Nadu Anand Inbanathan 4. Caste and the
Business of Democracy: Insights from Rural Karnataka Kripa Ananthpur and
Radhika Viswanathan Part II - Caste and Mobility: Views from Below 5. M.N.
Srinivas and his 'Field-View' of Society: Some Critical Reflections Joseph
Tharamangalam 6. One Village and Many Changes: The Problematique of
Understanding Mobility of Dalits Sobin George 7. Caste, Religion and
Recognition: Trajectories of Pasmanda Muslim Movements Tanweer Fazal Part
III - Marginalities and Development 8. Youth, Endogenous Discrimination and
the Development Conundrum S Madheswaran, Smrutirekha Singhari and B P Vani
9. Multiple Marginalities: Educational and Occupational Mobility of
Differently-Abled Persons Across Social Groups in India C M Lakshmana 10.
Economic, Occupational and Livelihood Changes of Scheduled Tribes of North
Eastern Region Reimeingam Marchang 11. 'Outsourcing' in Coal Mining:
Understanding Labour, Livelihood and Mafia Politics in the Coalfields of
Dhanbad, Jharkhand Sujit Kumar 12. From Mobilisations to Mediations:
Shifting Trajectories of Latin Catholic Church's Engagements to Neo-Liberal
Development Projects in Kerala Abdul Raoof C K Appendix. Index.