The Routledge Handbook of the Other Backward Classes in India Thought, Movements and Development

Foreword by Christophe Jaffrelot

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I: THOUGHT AND IDEOLOGY

1. The Backward God: Gautam Buddha’s Liberative Agenda for the OBCs

Kancha Ilaiah

2. Contesting Caste: The Revolutionary Movement of the Sant-Poets         

Braj Ranjan Mani                  

3. The Thought and Ideology of Jotirao Phule

Gail Omvedt                                                                                                               

4. Claiming Savitribai Phule: Life and Times of a Forgotten Liberator       

Nilekha Salunke

5. Shahu Maharaj and OBC Empowerment in Maharashtra

Bharath Patankar                                          

6. Dr Ambedkar and Annihilation of Caste   

K Srinivasulu

7. Narayana Guru and Formation of Political Society in Kerala:  A Contemporary Critique

K V Cybil                                                                                                        

8.  E V Ramasami Periyar on Caste-Society & Category-wise Rights         

G Aloysius

9. Dr. Lohia’s Socialist Thought and Powering People

Simhadri Somanaboina and Akhileshwari Ramagoud          

PART II: OBC MOVEMENTS

10. Introduction: OBCs and Social Justice

M N Rao

11. Mandal, Mandal Commission and Making of an OBC Identity

Arvind Kumar

12. The Other Backward Classes: Pre- and Post-Mandal India

Simhadri Somanaboina

13.  Backward Caste Movement: The Tamil Nadu Experience

K A Manikumar

14. Backward Class Movement in Karnataka

M Gurulingaiah

15. Politics and Public Policy of the Dominant Castes towards Backward Classes in Erstwhile Andhra Pradesh: A Critical Analysis from 1956-2014

E Venkatesu

16. OBC Movement in Maharashtra:  Reclaiming the Bahujan legacy

Lata Pratibha Madhukar       

17. OBC Leadership & Electoral Politics in Uttar Pradesh

A K Verma

18. Understanding Backward Caste Movement in Contemporary Bihar

Sanjay Kumar

19. The Other Backward Classes in Bengal: Exclusion, Exploitation and Empowerment

Mahua Sarkar

PART III: OBC DEVELOPMENT AND POLICIES

20. Contextualizing the Backward Classes Discourse

G Aloysius

21. Modernization, Social Exclusion and Empowerment of Other Backward Classes in India: A Study of Gujarat

Santosh Kumar and D Sriram

22. Other Backward Classes and State Policies in Uttar Pradesh

Chitaranjan Das Adhikary

23. The Status of Muslim OBCs in India: Inclusion/Exclusion of Muslim OBCs in the Process of Modernisation and Development in Post-Independent India

Syed Amin Jafri

24. Status of Backward Caste Artisans in India: An Appraisal

K Murali Manohar

25. Entrenched Inequality among OBC Women of India: A Narrative of Telangana

Akhileshwari Ramagoud

26. The Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Communities of Telangana: A Ground Report

Akhileshwari Ramagoudand Simhadri Somanaboina

27. Media in India: Free to Exclude?

P L Vishweshwer Rao

28. The OBC vote in North India: Trends and Patterns

Sanjay Kumar and Pranav Gupta

Biography

Simhadri Somanaboina is former Professor at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He was associated with the Dept 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 colonization of Telangana, election atlas and caste studies and has been associated with anti-caste movements and 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 as its Special Correspondent for Andhra Pradesh based in Hyderabad. She taught at the Dept. 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.