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Caste

About: Caste is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5681 publications have been published within this topic receiving 91330 citations. The topic is also known as: caste system.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the labouring class poor are best able to access social protection when they have sufficient economic autonomy from their village's dominant class to allow them to act politically.
Abstract: This article argues that the labouring class poor are best able to access social protection when they have sufficient economic autonomy from their village's dominant class to allow them to act politically. To this end, the article analyses the capacity of associations of scheduled caste female labourers in rural Karnataka (south India) to access social protection through collective action. It identifies links between modifications of the material conditions of the labouring class, their capacity to take political action and the social and institutional forms that reflect the social relations of production. Three important variables are identified: the extent of economic autonomy from the dominant class, support from class-conscious social movement organizers and the political configuration of the local state. The former variable in particular is something that the mainstream social protection policy agenda fails to prioritize.

22 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: In ants, induction and differentiation of female castes occur in a variety of social systems, and organisation forms, imply various mechanisms for the ensurance of adequate production rates of workers and reproductives in the societies.
Abstract: Caste formation is one of the most challenging problems in the study of social insects. In ants, induction and differentiation of female castes occur in a variety of social systems, and organisation forms, imply various mechanisms for the ensurance of adequate production rates of workers and reproductives in the societies. Numerous investigations have been made to elucidate the different caste induction mechanisms, but they rarely evaluated their importance with respect to the social systems. At present we are not able to formulate a comprehensive theory on this subject which would comprise all known facts and which would be applicable to all ants.

22 citations

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TL;DR: Using an ethnographic approach that takes into account the symbolic and material aspects of caste and class, the authors focuses on the attempts to form a "community" of potters among a large group of potter-artisans in central India.
Abstract: The anthropology of India has been dominated by an emphasis on caste that has inhibited an integrated approach to understanding class in India. Using an ethnographic approach that takes into account the symbolic and material aspects of caste and class, this article focuses on the attempts to form a "community" of potters among a large group of potter-artisans in central India. It is problematic, however, to view this community as a federation of potter castes or as simply a bloc of classes. Katznelson's (1986) insights into different aspects of class formation help to understand how caste and class get constructed in the formation of a community. Here the apparently caste-based dispositions of potters reveals a class consciousness that is culturally organized by a custom that men work the potter's wheel and women do the marketing. (Caste, class community, India).

22 citations

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TL;DR: The notion of a single hierarchy or multiple hierarchies based on purity and pollution is inadequate to address the reality of caste in India as discussed by the authors, and it fails to recognize the inequality of castes founded on unequal access to land and political power, and the consequent exploitation of the lower castes by the higher castes that was intrinsic to the system.
Abstract: The notion of a single hierarchy or multiple hierarchies based on purity and pollution is inadequate to address the reality of caste in India. It fails to recognize the inequality of castes founded on unequal access to land and political power, and the consequent exploitation of the lower castes by the higher castes that was intrinsic to the system. Alternatively, it is argued that the status of a caste in the caste system was determined above all by its access to land, which also carried with it political power and social honour.

22 citations

Book
22 Nov 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, the political economy of rule and rebellion in Kerala and India is discussed. But the authors focus on the political practices and left ascendancy in Kerala, 1920-1947.
Abstract: 1. Old Legacies, New Protests 2. The Political-Economy of Rule and Rebellion 3. State Formation and Social Movements 4. Political Practices and Left Ascendancy in Kerala, 1920-1947 5. Structure, Practices and Weak Left Hegemony in Bengal, 1925-1947 6. Insurgent and Electoral Logics in Policy Regimes, Kerala and Bengal Compared, 1947-1991. Afterword

22 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023585
20221,232
2021241
2020254
2019243
2018247