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Republic of Caste: Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Navayana Publishing Pvt Ltd, 2018Description: 431ISBN:
  • 9788189059866
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  • 305.56880954 TEL
Summary: Republic of Caste : Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva Commanding in its scope, revelatory and unsparing in argument, Republic of caste amounts to a new map of post-Independence India. Anand ‘Teltumbde identifies the watershed moments of its journey: from the adoption of a flawed Constitution to the Green revolution, the OBC upsurge and rise of regional parties, up to the Nexus of neoliberalism and Hindu TV a in the present day. As a politics of symbolism exploits the fissile nature of caste to devitalise India’s poorest, Teltumbde’s damning analysis shows progressive politics a way out of the present impasse.
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Republic of Caste : Thinking Equality in the Time of Neoliberal Hindutva
Commanding in its scope, revelatory and unsparing in argument, Republic of caste amounts to a new map of post-Independence India. Anand ‘Teltumbde identifies the watershed moments of its journey: from the adoption of a flawed Constitution to the Green revolution, the OBC upsurge and rise of regional parties, up to the Nexus of neoliberalism and Hindu TV a in the present day. As a politics of symbolism exploits the fissile nature of caste to devitalise India’s poorest, Teltumbde’s damning analysis shows progressive politics a way out of the present impasse.

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