| ID | 188744 |
| Title Proper | Caste as Process in Post-Liberalisation India |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Salovaara, Isabel M |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The task of recent scholarship on India’s post-liberalisation period has been, in part, a re-casteing: a deliberate investigation of the ways in which historically embedded hierarchical divisions are continually reworked and thereby reinvigorated. Amid contemporary debates over the forms, sites and effects of caste and caste discrimination, this article identifies a shift in critical scholarship towards understandings of caste as process. Processual readings of caste within market- and merit-based institutions productively reframe caste in India from a ‘relic’ undergoing erosion to an accretion of new layers and logics upon older principles of innate human value. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 45, No.6; Dec 2022: p.968-985 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol: 45 No 6 |
| Key Words | Caste ; Liberalisation ; India ; Youth ; Hierarchy ; Endogamy ; Process ; Merit |