Other Backward Classes in India

Modernisation and Exclusion
Herausgeber: Somanaboina, Simhadri; Ramagoud, Akhileshwari

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook presents an authoritative account of the development of movements, thoughts, and policies of OBCs (Other Backward Classes) in India. it is a comprehensive work on the politics of identity and plurality of experiences of OBCs in India, featuring many eminent scholars working in the field of social justice and social exclusion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781032974866
• ISBN-10: 1032974869
• Artikelnr.: 73326855

Autorenporträt

Simhadri Somanaboina is a former professor at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He was associated with the Department of Geography and Geoinformatics for 35 years. He has published on development studies, urban, regional and environmental studies and geo-informatics. His interest has been social activism and the marginalised people. He has published books on internal colonisation of Telangana, election atlas and caste studies and has been associated with anti-caste movements and the movement for a separate Telangana state for over three decades. Akhileshwari Ramagoud is an award-winning journalist and a teacher for 40-odd years. She was Deccan Herald's foreign correspondent based in Washington DC, USA, and its special correspondent for Andhra Pradesh based in Hyderabad. She taught at the Department of Communication and Journalism in Osmania University and in Loyola Academy, Secunderabad, Telangana, India. She has published several research papers on media studies in national and international journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Christophe Jaffrelot. Introduction PART I: THOUGHT AND IDEOLOGY
1. The Backward God: Gautam Buddha's Liberative Agenda for the OBCs 2.
Contesting Caste: The Revolutionary Movement of the Sant-Poets 3. The
Thought and Ideology of Jotirao Phule 4. Claiming Savitribai Phule: Life
and Times of a Forgotten Liberator 5. Shahu Maharaj and OBC Empowerment in
Maharashtra 6. Dr Ambedkar and Annihilation of Caste 7. Narayana Guru and
Formation of Political Society in Kerala: A Contemporary Critique 8. E V
Ramasami Periyar on Caste-Society & Category-wise Rights 9. Dr. Lohia's
Socialist Thought and Powering People PART II: OBC MOVEMENTS10.
Introduction: OBCs and Social Justice 11. Mandal, Mandal Commission and
Making of an OBC Identity 12. The Other Backward Classes: Pre- and
Post-Mandal India 13. Backward Caste Movement: The Tamil Nadu Experience
14. Backward Class Movement in Karnataka 15. Politics and Public Policy of
the Dominant Castes towards Backward Classes in Erstwhile Andhra Pradesh: A
Critical Analysis from 1956-2014 16. OBC Movement in Maharashtra:
Reclaiming the Bahujan legacy 17. OBC Leadership & Electoral Politics in
Uttar Pradesh 18. Understanding Backward Caste Movement in Contemporary
Bihar 19. The Other Backward Classes in Bengal: Exclusion, Exploitation and
Empowerment PART III: OBC DEVELOPMENT AND POLICIES 20. Contextualizing the
Backward Classes Discourse 21. Modernization, Social Exclusion and
Empowerment of Other Backward Classes in India: A Study of Gujarat 22.
Other Backward Classes and State Policies in Uttar Pradesh 23. The Status
of Muslim OBCs in India: Inclusion/Exclusion of Muslim OBCs in the Process
of Modernisation and Development in Post-Independent India 24. Status of
Backward Caste Artisans in India: An Appraisal 25. Entrenched Inequality
among OBC Women of India: A Narrative of Telangana 26. The Nomadic and
Semi-Nomadic Communities of Telangana: A Ground Report 27. Media in India:
Free to Exclude? 28. The OBC vote in North India: Trends and Patterns