Title: Cast(e)ing the State Policy Ascription, Identities and Democratic Politics

Speaker: Surinder S. Jodhka

The post-Independence Indian state has had a rather ambivalent attitude towards caste. Even though caste was widely recognized as a structure of social disability and hierarchy, it could not enter the imaginations of India‟s development establishment and found no place in the vocabulary of economic growth spelt out in the planning models of the Nehruvian state

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