1st Edition
Other Backward Classes in India Modernisation and Exclusion
1 The Backward Caste Question in Contemporary India
KARLI SRINIVASULU
2 India’s Transformation: The Need for a Renewed Phule-Ambedkarite Discourse
BRAJ RANJAN MANI
3 Social Deprivation, Mobilization, and State in the Formation of Identity and Affirmative Action Policy: An Analysis of the Other Backward Classes
E. VENKATESU
4 Public Policies and Programmes for the Development of OBCs: A Study of Two South Indian States, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
CH BALA RAMULU
5 State, Textile Policy and Handloom Sector: Handloom Weaver Communities in the Context of Liberalization
KARLI SRINIVASULU
6 Sheep, Shepherds and the State: Policy Process and Mobilization – A Study in Andhra Pradesh
DANDEBOINA RAVINDER
7 Nomadic and Denotified Tribes: Changing Contours of Lives
INUKONDA THIRUMALI
8 Dudekula/Noorbasha Muslims in Andhra Pradesh: Exclusion and Empowerment
ABDUL NOORBASHA
9 Modernization and Social Exclusion: Empowerment of OBCs among Muslims in Andhra Pradesh
SHAIK ABDUL AZEEZ SAHEB
10 Caste Interface: A Study in United Andhra Pradesh
D. VENKATESWARLU AND P. RAJAIAH
11 Inequalities and Indian Media: A Historical Perspective
JINKA NAGARAJU
12 Globalization and Development in the Shadow of Forward Castes
SIMHADRI SOMANABOINA
13 Caste Monopolisation of ‘Governmental Power’ in Andhra Pradesh
K. MURALI MANOHAR
Biography
Simhadri Somanaboina is a former professor at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He was associated with the Department of Geography and Geoinformatics for 35 years. He has published on development studies, urban, regional and environmental studies and geo-informatics. His interest has been social activism and the marginalised people. He has published books on internal colonisation of Telangana, election atlas and caste studies and has been associated with anti-caste movements and the movement for a separate Telangana state for over three decades.
Akhileshwari Ramagoud is an award-winning journalist and a teacher for 40-odd years. She was Deccan Herald’s foreign correspondent based in Washington DC, USA, and its special correspondent for Andhra Pradesh based in Hyderabad. She taught at the Department of Communication and Journalism in Osmania University and in Loyola Academy, Secunderabad, Telangana, India. She has published several research papers on media studies in national and international journals.
