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Caste, social inequality and mobility in rural India: reconceptualizing the Indian village

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sage Publications India New Delhi 2019Description: xvi, 378 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9789353282011
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.51220954 S4C2
Summary: Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualising the Indian Village investigates and presents a holistic view of today’s rural India by analysing different social aspects such as caste, migration, mobility, education and inequalities. It further studies the village social structure comprising peasants, artisans, weavers and the middle class, and the role of education in reshaping the social life of rural people. It challenges current conceptualisation and understanding of caste as a system, caste mobility, caste–class polarity and country–town divide. This book also argues that caste as a system has ceased to exist, but caste persists discretely as a non-systemic means of appropriation for political and social ends. This interdisciplinary dynamic study reconceptualises the ‘village’ by explaining the emerging social trends and patterns of social stratification in contemporary rural India. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/caste-social-inequality-and-mobility-in-rural-india/book267444
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Introduction

Part I: Social Contours of Indian Village
1.Introducing the Indian Village
2.Reinterpreting Caste
3.Caste, Inequality and Social Mobility
4.Individual and Family

Part II Glimpses of Village Economy
5.Peasants : A Declining Backbone of Rural Economy
6.Artisans: Proto-industrial Workers
7.Weavers: Under the Dominance of Master-Weavers

Part III: Rural Power Structure
8.Reflections on Indian Polity vis-à-vis Indian Village
9.Dynamics of Elections and Its Reflections on Rural India
10.Panchayati Raj Institutions and Empowerment

Part IV: Emerging Patterns of Stratification and Change
11.Formation of Middle Class in Rural India
12.Education and Social Stratification in Village India
13.Understanding Rural Development in India

Part V: Theoretical and Empirical Concerns in Village Studies
14.Subaltern Studies in the Wake of Globalization Revisiting the Six Villages in Rajasthan After Half a 15.Century Conclusion: Emerging Matrix of Social Status and Change

Caste, Social Inequality and Mobility in Rural India: Reconceptualising the Indian Village investigates and presents a holistic view of today’s rural India by analysing different social aspects such as caste, migration, mobility, education and inequalities. It further studies the village social structure comprising peasants, artisans, weavers and the middle class, and the role of education in reshaping the social life of rural people. It challenges current conceptualisation and understanding of caste as a system, caste mobility, caste–class polarity and country–town divide. This book also argues that caste as a system has ceased to exist, but caste persists discretely as a non-systemic means of appropriation for political and social ends. This interdisciplinary dynamic study reconceptualises the ‘village’ by explaining the emerging social trends and patterns of social stratification in contemporary rural India.

https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/caste-social-inequality-and-mobility-in-rural-india/book267444

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