1st Edition
The Indian Social Sphere Institutions and Social Transformations
This book studies the social formation of India through the lens of religion, state, ethnicity, and governance. It provides a nuanced understanding of the structural as well as the processual aspects of the Indian social sphere. The volume studies diverse themes, such as the impact of religiosity on religious consciousness, the primacy of tribal identity in colonial India, political inclusion of marginalised communities, the emerging subaltern activism, among others.
An important contribution, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, political sociology, South Asian studies, Affirmative action, and political science.
PART ONE: Some Components of the Social Sphere: Religion, State, Ethnicity, and Governance
1. Communication of Religious Knowledge in the Lingayat Community
Dan A. Chekki
2. Impact of Religiosity on Religious Consciousness: A Comparative Study of Jains and Radhasoamis of Agra
Poornima Jain
3. Primacy of Tribal Identity in Colonial India: An Interface between Colonial Construction, Revolts and Religious Conversion
Muzaffar Assadi
4. The Process of State Formation in Goa (CE 400 to 1400)
Nagendra Rao
5. Examining Ethnicity: The Context of Mizos in Bengaluru
D. V. Kumar
6. Governance, Decentralization and Peacebuilding in India: Exemplications from Jammu and Kashmir State
Ashish Saxena and Vijayalaxmi Saxena
7. Civil Society in India: Its Role in India’s development Story
Shalini Jain
8. The Friendship Bridge in Nepal – Squeezed Between India and China
Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt and Manish Thapa
PART TWO: Affirmative Actions, Social Policy and Social Transformations
9. Bending Backwards and Forwards: Caste, Polity and Public Policy (The Case of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh States)
R. Siva Prasad
10. Political Inclusion of the Marginalised Communities in Panchayats in India-Case Study of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States
M. Gopinath Reddy and Bishnuprasad Mohapatra
11. Politics of Indigeneity: The Emerging Subaltern Activism in Kerala
Antony Palackal
12. Transformative Challenges in the Northeast India: A Study of Ethno-Political Dimensions
K.Vidyasagar Reddy
13. Rethinking Urban Poverty and Social Justice in Independent India: The Case of an Unsustainable Special Economic Zone (SEZ) near Mumbai
Jasmine Damle
Biography
Sakarama Somayaji, Shree Keshetra Hosakatte Trust, (Agency for Social Development of Underprivileged), Mundadi, Karnataka, India.
Ganesha Somayaji, Professor of Sociology, Goa University, India.
Joanna P. Coelho, Sociology Programme, Goa University, India.
