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Politics of Identity Contra Anti-caste Social Visions

Vol. 57, Issue No. 42, 15 Oct, 2022
Rajat Roy

The intricate relations between caste-based identity politics and anti-caste social associations and visions in West Bengal are unravelled, based on findings from a micro study conducted in a village in Nadia district between November 2020 and March 2021. In-depth interviews too were conducted with Namasudra leaders, the anti-caste Matua sect, and Matua dals (village associations) in Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts. While the discourse on citizenship and the long experience of social and political marginalisation have resulted in a strategic polarisation of the Matuas towards the politics of Hindutva, this has never stifled their quest for social justice.The intricate relations between caste-based identity politics and anti-caste social associations and visions in West Bengal are unravelled, based on findings from a micro study conducted in a village in Nadia district between November 2020 and March 2021. In-depth interviews too were conducted with Namasudra leaders, the anti-caste Matua sect, and Matua dals (village associations) in Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts. While the discourse on citizenship and the long experience of social and political marginalisation have resulted in a strategic polarisation of the Matuas towards the politics of Hindutva, this has never stifled their quest for social justice.

Bhojanmata’s Struggle for Dignity

Vol. 57, Issue No. 2, 08 Jan, 2022

Caste consciousness imposes moral limits on preferential hiring in the mid-day meal schemes.

 

When Labour Meets Culture

Vol. 55, Issue No. 51, 26 Dec, 2020
Ujithra Ponniah

Cultural Labour: Conceptualising the ‘Folk Performance’ in India by Brahma Prakash, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xvi+290, ₹1,195.

Breaking the Chaturvarna System of Languages

Vol. 52, Issue No. 23, 10 Jun, 2017
Hany Babu M T

The Indian language policy is informed by a pull towards unilingual identity, inspired by the European model of nation state that is predicated on the homogeneity of its people. Language hegemony works at two tiers in India—at the state and the centre. The Constitution fails to pay more than lip service to the linguistic plurality and multilingual ethos of the peoples of India and has created a chaturvarna (four-tier order) of languages, with Sanskrit, Hindi, the scheduled, and the non-scheduled languages occupying various rungs of the ladder. English—the language of the conquerors—being outside the chaturvarna system has emancipatory potential.

Social Capital and Collective Action

Vol. 38, Issue No. 14, 05 Apr, 2003
Emmanuel D'Silva, Sudha Pai

With the retreat of the interventionist state, development is often perceived as a product of partnership between the state and civil society with increasing emphasis on people's participation at the grass roots. Using a framework of collective action based upon social capital, this paper examines whether social capital is important for successful development outcomes at the grass roots in forest protection and watershed development. Three villages of Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh are the focus of the study.

'Dalit': A Term Asserting Unity

Vol. 37, Issue No. 42, 19 Oct, 2002
Sunita Reddy Bharati
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