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Dr. Vivek Kumar

Caste and Democracy in India [Hardcover]

Gyan Publishing House, 2014

52,56 €

Gyan Books Pvt Ltd

(Delhi, Inde)

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Metodi di Pagamento

Dettagli

Année
2014
ISBN
1111008613964
Auteur
Dr. Vivek Kumar
Pages
346
Éditeurs
Gyan Publishing House
Thème
Political Science, General
Langues
Anglais
Reliure
Couverture rigide
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Descrizione

This book makes two claims about Jati (caste) and democracy in India. First, Social Scientists have only partially understood the realities embedded in the institution of Jati. Second, this partial understanding has propagated a distorted picture of the relationship between Jati and democracy. To prove these claims, the book critically examines structures and processes in the Jati and Indian democracy like Political Parties, Civil Society Organizations, Selfrepresentation, Personality Cult, and Corruption. On the above bases, the book argues that two opposite views on the relationship between Jati and democracy have emerged in the Indian academia; one, Jati as functional for society but antithetical to Indian democracy and second, Jati as dysfunctional for the exuntouchables but functional for the Indian democracy. However, the first view is more privileged than the other. While the book makes an attempt to map the reasons for this privilege, it tries to record the second with a 'perspective from below'.
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