Lived Realities of Socio-political Negotiations by Marginalized Groups and the Inherent Rationality of Caste-Based Power Negotiations: A Study ofKhapRegions of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh
Abstract:The article explores the lived realities of socio-political negotiations by marginalized groups and the inherent rationality of caste-based power negotiations at a micro level. It also explores the possibilities of alternate futures and alternate interpretations of the margins, through the study of caste-based negotiations and subversions in the Khap villages of western Uttar Pradesh. Stuart Hall, British Cultural theorist, draws attention to the perspective that cultural identification need not produce an ess… Show more
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