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The present book deals with the structural manitestations of the aspirations represented by the movements of Dalits, provides a bird s eye view of the Scheduled Castes in India through the ages and seeks to analyse the status of three groups in contemporary India. This outstanding text-cum-reference book will be of great use to scholars, administrators, planners, policy makers and students.
Contributed articles, excerpts, etc., chiefly in the Indian context.
This Book Relates To The Indian Debate On Reservations - A Legal Provision That Guarantees A Minimum Presence In Various Institutions To Social Categories Considered Considered As Victims Of A Historical Prejudice. It Focuses On The Implementation Of Electoral Reservations For Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes And Women. The Book Thus Offers A Collective, Though Partial, Stock-Taking Exercise, And Adds To Our Understanding Of Reservations As A Policy, Their Limitations And Their Principal And Secondary Effects.
Upliftment of the scheduled castes is not merely a matter of compassion or charity as is commonly assumed but a developmental necessity. Centuries of exploitation and neglect have forced the majority of these hapless people into sub-human existence. They occupy the bottom rung of the social lader. Devoid of education, information and the necessary motivation, information and the necessary motivation, they are not in a postion to take advantage of teh reservation policy and other programmes evolved to improve their situation. Are the need and relevance of development of these exterior castes duly appreciated? Have development programmes of rthe betterment of the dperessed classes been able to achieve their objective? Is there the necessary social, political and administrative will to evolve social, intervention strategies and implement them in letter and spirit? The present work addresses itself to these questions and strives to identify those factors which facilitate or hinder development and change in these weaker sections of society. It examines the socio-cultural background, economic situation, social interactional patterns, development programmes, the magnitude of participation in these development of participation in these development programmes and programme preference of the members of the scheduled castes.
Contributed articles, excerpts, etc., most in the Indian context; socioanthropological approach.
The present work deals with the changing socio-economic condition of the scheduled castes in the field of social structure, occupation, economic condition, political participation and affiliation, education, health, housing and reservation quota etc.
Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally. The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics, economics, law, and language to the caste system. Showing that the caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other areas. Milton Singer (1912-1994) was Paul Klapper Professor of Social Sciences and professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also chosen as a distinguished lecturer by the American Anthropological Association and was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Association for Asian Studies. Bernard S. Cohn (1918-2003) was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was widely known for his work on India during the British colonial period and wrote many books on the subject of India including India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization (1971), An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (1987), and Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (1996).