Scheduled Caste Elite

Scheduled Caste Elite
Author: Y. B. Abbasayulu
Publisher: Hyderabad : Department of Sociology, Osmania University : distributors, Booklinks
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1978
Genre: Andhra Pradesh (India)
ISBN:

Towards Social Integration

Towards Social Integration
Author: Vasant Dattatraya Deshpande
Publisher: Pune : Shubhada-Saraswat
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1978
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

A case study based on in-depth interviews with persons belonging to scheduled castes who struggled against caste hurdles and economic odds to become successful in life.

Social Transformation Through Scheduled Caste Elites and Their Organisations

Social Transformation Through Scheduled Caste Elites and Their Organisations
Author: Rama Krishna Valmiki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

Social inequality is their in Indian society since from the ancient time. Among the other factors which contributed for the inequality, the caste system in the Indian society occupies the predominant role. As the lower caste were to subject traditional work with low income earnings. Scheduled caste has low Social and Economic Status. The low status is on account of socio-cultural economic and political restrictions imposed on them traditionally by the Society at large. These restrictions resulted in confining the arena of activity of the scheduled caste to a limit. As this environment continued even after India's independence, and the constitutional provisions came into force for the achievement of social justice and equality. As the process of transformation of lower caste people had taken place. Further, the impact of reservation provisions within the lower caste benefited and few of them emerged as elites among the lower caste. Particularly in the state of Karnataka the scheduled caste transformation is being taken place by the involvement of elite people from scheduled caste. Thus, the present paper examines the efforts of the scheduled caste elites and their organizations to improve the social, economic and culture of scheduled caste people. It also intends to identify the roles of scheduled caste elites and organizations for creating political awareness among the schedule caste people. The paper also intends to focuses on the over all social transformation in Gulbarga District from the members of scheduled castes.

Mapping the Elite

Mapping the Elite
Author: Surinder S. Jodhka
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199097917

India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically poor in the world today, it is home to a sizeable number of thriving rich and flourishing middle classes. They are reshaping the country’s popular image and its self-imagination. Equally important are its political dynamics. With increasing participation of erstwhile-marginalized sections in the electoral process, the social profile of India’s political elite has been changing, making way for those coming from the middle and lower strata of the traditional social order, thus broadening the social base of political power. Mapping the Elite seeks to expand the understanding of processes of formations and transformations of the Indian elite. The contributors explore the emergent elite spaces, the new idioms of power and inequality, the diverse strategies in which symbolic boundaries of privilege are traced in everyday lives, as well as the class mobilities in an age of proclaimed meritocracy. They do so by using the sociological frames of caste, class, gender, community, and their intersections. The ''Exploring India’s Elite' series provides a platform to scholars working on elite dynamics in India. It seeks to enable an understanding of the nuances of inequality, power, and other emerging social structures.

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds
Author: Ramashray Roy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1987
Genre: Caste
ISBN:

Study conducted in Azamgarh District, Uttar Pradesh.

Emerging Harijan Elite

Emerging Harijan Elite
Author: Sheo Swarath Singh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1987
Genre: Dalits
ISBN:

Study with reference to Varanasi District, Uttar Pradesh.

Political Elite Among Scheduled Castes

Political Elite Among Scheduled Castes
Author: Aluri Sundar Kumar Das
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2018
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9788131609477

This book delves into the history of the Dalit movements in Coastal Andhra and the Telangana regions of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh. It is a critical study on the behavioural pattern of the Dalit leaders in the combined state of Andhra Pradesh. Though the spearheads of the movements entered electoral politics after India's independence, the system of 'joint electorate' and politics of cooptation adopted by the dominant political parties have diluted the movement for social structural change. This is reflected in the persistent social exclusion and occasional atrocities against Dalits, especially in rural areas. The trajectory of clientelism, the inroads of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and the strategies adopted to compete with the entrenched political parties are critically examined in this book. It concludes with strategies for mobilisation and political power in the light of changing political equations in the state and the country.