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Examine the role of caste as a pressure-group in contemporary Indian politics.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Caste System

A pressure group seeks to influence public policy without seeking office. Caste qualifies awkwardly but powerfully: it is ascriptive, yet its modern organisations articulate interests, lobby, bargain and agitate exactly as interest groups do. Rajni Kothari (Caste in Indian Politics, 1970) called this the secular dimension of caste — the use of a ritual grouping…

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  • How caste performs interest articulation
  • Pressure group or party?
  • Contemporary quota agitations
  • An assessment
  • Conclusion

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