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Caste Matters in Public Policy: Issues and Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Caste Matters in Public Policy Issues and Perspectives

Edited By Rahul Choragudi, Sony Pellissery, N. Jayaram Copyright 2023
246 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

246 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

246 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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Caste in India, despite its historical resilience, has been undergoing transformation since independence. If caste as a system of rigid stratification has been on the decline, castes as autonomous interest-serving groups have been on ascendance. This book critically engages with the changing notions of caste and its intersection with public policy in India. It discusses key issues such as social... Read more

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction: The career of caste in public policy

Rahul Choragudi, Sony Pellissery, and N. Jayaram

PART I

The national scenario

1 Caste in and out of place: State, market, and culture

Stig Toft Madsen

2 Enumerating caste in the census: Is it useful for public policy?

N. Jayaram

PART II

Perspectives from the states

3 Awareness and access to social security among the unorganised worker households: A study of scheduled caste sub-plan and tribal sub-plan in Karnataka

D. Rajasekhar and R. Manjula

4 Addressing graded inequality among the scheduled castes: Internal reservation as a strategy

Arvind Narrain and Basawa Prasad Kunale

5 Caste and politics: Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu

R. Saravana Raja

6 Economic prospects, protective discrimination, and the changing hierarchy: An ethnographic study in a coastal village in Andhra Pradesh

Rahul Choragudi

7 Caste and public policy: The case of West Bengal

Antara Ray

8 Development policies and marginal groups: Case study of dhobis in Delhi

Subhadra Mitra Channa

PART III

Caste beyond Hinduism

9 Despite equality: Sikhs and the caste issue

Paramjit S. Judge

10 Caste and caste discrimination among Christians and Muslims: A case for revisiting the ambit of protective discrimination policy

Gaurang R. Sahay

Epilogue: Caste in public policy analysis: Rediscovering public sphere through institutionalist lens

Sony Pellissery

Index

Biography

Rahul Choragudi is Assistant Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India.

Sony Pellissery is Professor at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India.

N. Jayaram is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India.

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