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How do caste and class interact with each other in Indian politics?

  • UPSC 1993
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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Caste is an ascribed, endogamous status group ranked by ritual purity; class is a position in the structure of property, occupation and income. Historically the two overlapped — the ritually low were also the landless — which made caste a proxy for disadvantage. Indian politics is largely the story of their divergence, and of groups…

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  • Rival readings of the relationship
  • Class working through caste
  • Class inside caste: differentiation and policy
  • Dalit-bahujan politics and the new middle class
  • Conclusion
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