Caste Matters in Public Policy

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction: The career of caste in public policy

Rahul Choragudi, Sony Pellissery, and N. Jayaram

PART I

The national scenario

1 Caste in and out of place: State, market, and culture

Stig Toft Madsen

2 Enumerating caste in the census: Is it useful for public policy?

N. Jayaram

PART II

Perspectives from the states

3 Awareness and access to social security among the unorganised worker households: A study of scheduled caste sub-plan and tribal sub-plan in Karnataka

D. Rajasekhar and R. Manjula

4 Addressing graded inequality among the scheduled castes: Internal reservation as a strategy

Arvind Narrain and Basawa Prasad Kunale

5 Caste and politics: Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu

R. Saravana Raja

6 Economic prospects, protective discrimination, and the changing hierarchy: An ethnographic study in a coastal village in Andhra Pradesh

Rahul Choragudi

7 Caste and public policy: The case of West Bengal

Antara Ray

8 Development policies and marginal groups: Case study of dhobis in Delhi

Subhadra Mitra Channa

PART III

Caste beyond Hinduism

9 Despite equality: Sikhs and the caste issue

Paramjit S. Judge

10 Caste and caste discrimination among Christians and Muslims: A case for revisiting the ambit of protective discrimination policy

Gaurang R. Sahay

Epilogue: Caste in public policy analysis: Rediscovering public sphere through institutionalist lens

Sony Pellissery

Index

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• As questões sociais e processos
• Sociologia
• Política e governo
• Classes sociais

caste;policy;Mandal Commission;Other Backward Classes;SCs;Scheduled Castes;Tamil Nadu;Backward Classes;Protective Discrimination;Young Men;Andhra Pradesh;Protective Discrimination Policy;Primordial Institution;Civil Society;Social Security Schemes;Caste Associations;Dhobi Ghats;Caste Question;Census Operations;Kaka Kalelkar;ST Household;Graded Inequality;Sikh Castes;SC Household;TSP;Lower Jatis;Left Front Government;Syrian Christians;Touchable Castes;West Bengal