Changing Caste: Ideology, Identity and Mobility (Studies in Indian Sociology) Hardcover – Illustrated, 1 January 2013

About the Book: Studies in Indian Sociology: Changing Caste: Ideology, Identity and Mobility: Volume 2 This volume has a range of select articles on different dimensions of the caste system in India. These articles have been divided into three parts. The first part deals broadly with conceptual and theoretical issues. The second part has empirical accounts of different dimensions of caste and the related daily experiences of the changes and continuities, with most of the articles looking at the patterns of social mobility among individual communities and sections of population. The third part focuses on different dimensions of the political sociology of caste and identity politics. Content Series Note Foreword Dipankar Gupta Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Surinder S Jodhka I: CONCEPTUALISING CHANGE Varna and Jati Andr? B?teille Caste and Class: Some Aspects of Continuity and Change Yogendra Singh A Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Caste Yogesh Atal Sanskritisation Revisited A M Shah II: DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE Caste in Transition K M Kapadia Social Mobility among the Madiga of Karnataka Lalita Chandrashekhar Social Mobility and Conversion of the Mahars Sunanda Patwardhan Co-operatives and Caste in Maharashtra: A Case Study B S Baviskar III: IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY AND POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF CASTE Ideology, Power and Resistance in a South Indian Village N Sudhakar Rao The Dalit Sahitya Movement in Maharashtra: A Sociological Analysis Uttam Bhoite and Anuradha Bhoite Caste and Democracy: Assertion and Identity among the Dalits of Rural Punjab Surinder S Jodhka Caste, Ethnicity and Problems of National Identity in Sri Lanka Kalinga Tudor Silva Index