
Class, Caste, Gender
Manoranjan Mohanty(Editor)
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
439 pages
978-0-7619-9644-6 (ISBN)
Description
Contemporary India's political landscape is characterized by a great deal of social upheaval. This is the result of growing democratic consciousness which is increasingly conflicting with the forces of domination, authoritarianism and hegemony. Against this backdrop, this volume provides an understanding of these forces in both historical and analytical terms. In particular, the seminal essays gathered here explore the specificities of the crucial social categories of class, caste and gender, while simultaneously drawing attention to the arenas in which they intersect.
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First Edition
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English
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Thousand Oaks
United States
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
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978-0-7619-9644-6 (9780761996446)
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Manoranjan Mohanty is a renowned political scientist and China scholar whose writings have focused on theoretical and empirical dimensions of social movements, human rights, the development experience and the regional role of India and China. As Vice-President of the Council for Social Development (CSD) and Editor of CSD's social science journal Social Change, published by SAGE, he brings a wealth of experience from both policy and practice perspectives. He is also Chairperson, Development Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi. Until 2004, he was Director, Developing Countries Research Centre, and Professor of Political Science at University of Delhi where he taught until his retirement. Former Chairperson and Director of ICS and former Editor of China Report, he has been on visiting assignments in several universities and research institutes in India and abroad including University of California, Berkeley; Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, Oxford, Beijing, Copenhagen, Lagos; University of California, Santa Barbara; and the New School, New York. Professor Mohanty has been a part of the founding and evolution of ICS, the Developing Countries Research Centre at University of Delhi and Gabeshana Chakra and Development Research Institute in Odisha. He has also been closely involved with the People's Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, and the Pakistan-India People's Forum for Democracy since their inception. He was part of the founding process of the Boao Forum for Asia in China and REGGEN, the Third-World sustainable development network in Brazil. His other contributions include 'China's Reforms: The Wuxi Story' in China after 1978: Craters in the Moon (2010), Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping (2014), 'Political Discourse on Public Sector Reforms in India and China' in Public Sector Reforms in China (2014) and 'India, China and the Emerging Process of Building a Just World' in Building a Just World: Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey (2015).
Contact Prof Manoranjan Mohanty at:
University of Delhi and Council for Social Development, Delhi
Email: mm@csdindia.org; mmohantydu@gmail.com
Contact Prof Manoranjan Mohanty at:
University of Delhi and Council for Social Development, Delhi
Email: mm@csdindia.org; mmohantydu@gmail.com
Content
Preface - Manoranjan Mohanty
Introduction: Dimensions of Power and Social Transformation
PART ONE: CLASS STRUCTURE AND THE STATE
Caste and Agrarian Class - Anand Chakravarti
A View from Bihar
The Political Economy of the Economic Reform Strategy - Prabhat Patnaik et al
The Role of the Indian Capitalist Class
The Working Class Movement in India - Sharit K Bhowmik
Trade Unions and the State
PART TWO: CASTE DOMINATION AND POLITICAL POWER
Castes in India - B R Ambedkar
Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
Caste in Modern India - M N Srinivas
Castes in Indian Politics - Rajni Kothari
Reservations Policy Revisited - D L Sheth
Caste or Class or Caste-Class - Kancha Ilaiah
A Study in Dalit-Bahujan Consciousness and Struggles in Andhra Pradesh in 1980s
The Language of Dalit-Bahujan Political Discourse - Gopal Guru
PART THREE: GENDER INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Conceptualizing Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India - Uma Chakravarti
Gender, Caste, Class and State
An Overview of the Status of Women in India - Neera Desai and Maithreyi Krishanaraj
Women and People's Movement - Ilina Sen
A Space within the Struggle
Gender Inequality and Women's Agency - Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen
Conclusion: Social Movements in a Creative Society - Manoranjan Mohanty
Appendix
Index
Introduction: Dimensions of Power and Social Transformation
PART ONE: CLASS STRUCTURE AND THE STATE
Caste and Agrarian Class - Anand Chakravarti
A View from Bihar
The Political Economy of the Economic Reform Strategy - Prabhat Patnaik et al
The Role of the Indian Capitalist Class
The Working Class Movement in India - Sharit K Bhowmik
Trade Unions and the State
PART TWO: CASTE DOMINATION AND POLITICAL POWER
Castes in India - B R Ambedkar
Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
Caste in Modern India - M N Srinivas
Castes in Indian Politics - Rajni Kothari
Reservations Policy Revisited - D L Sheth
Caste or Class or Caste-Class - Kancha Ilaiah
A Study in Dalit-Bahujan Consciousness and Struggles in Andhra Pradesh in 1980s
The Language of Dalit-Bahujan Political Discourse - Gopal Guru
PART THREE: GENDER INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Conceptualizing Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India - Uma Chakravarti
Gender, Caste, Class and State
An Overview of the Status of Women in India - Neera Desai and Maithreyi Krishanaraj
Women and People's Movement - Ilina Sen
A Space within the Struggle
Gender Inequality and Women's Agency - Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen
Conclusion: Social Movements in a Creative Society - Manoranjan Mohanty
Appendix
Index