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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

Elite & Social Change

Elite & Social Change
Author: Suren Navlakha
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1989-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

This book examines the difficulties -- created by the traditional social structure and colonial experience of change -- faced in generating modernization and structural change in India. The study is based on a survey of the social backgrounds of 1,432 members of three educated-professional elite groups -- industrial managers, civil servants and university teachers -- drawn from all over India. The findings confirm the familiar pattern of an extremely narrow upper stratum from which these functional groups recruit their members to the exclusion of the bulk of society. This important book reexamines the institution of caste and its socio-religious underpinnings showing that: caste works as a tight and elaborately defined bureaucratic order that encourages every group to preserve its uniqueness and graded privileges; and that, being fundamentally connected with factors relating to distribution of power (land, capital and labour), caste provides the main structure of dominance that divides society into two highly defined strata of great rigidity.

Why Ethnic Parties Succeed

Why Ethnic Parties Succeed
Author: Kanchan Chandra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2007-02-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521891417

Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? In a world in which ethnic parties flourish in both established and emerging democracies alike, understanding the conditions under which such parties rise and fall is of critical importance to both political scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in 'patronage democracies'. Chandra shows why individual voters and political entrepreneurs in such democracies condition their strategies not on party ideologies or policy platforms, but on a headcount of co-ethnics and others across party personnel and among the electorate.