Minds of caste - Discrimination and its affects

Jadhav, Sushrut; Mosse, David; Dostaler, Ned

doi:10.1111/1467-8322.12221

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“… 22 Such ‘dignity humiliation’—the refusal of claims to equality that can be contrasted to the ‘honour humiliation’ involved in ritual humblings and public enactments of graded status and Dalit inferiority in village life (see Lindner 2010)—we have found (in collaborative research led by Sushrut Jadhav et al (2016)) is a source of distress, turning universities into places of defeat for ambitious Dalit students or faculty. This has a bearing on the tragic death by suicide of talented students in elite institutions that has been a rupture in the narrative of casteless modernity.…”

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The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy

Mosse¹

2019

Mod. Asian Stud.

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What place does the caste system have in modern India with its globally integrating market economy? The most influential anthropological approaches to caste have tended to emphasize caste as India's traditional religious and ritual order, or (treating such order as a product of the colonial encounter) as shaped politically, especially today by the dynamics of caste-based electoral politics. Less attention has been paid to caste effects in the economy. This article argues that the scholarly framing of caste mirrors a public-policy ‘enclosure’ of caste in the non-modern realm of religion and ‘caste politics’, while aligning modernity to the caste-erasing market economy. Village-level fieldwork in South India finds a parallel public narrative of caste either as ritual rank eroded by market relations or as identity politics deflected from everyday economic life. But, locally and nationally, the effects of caste are found to be pervasive in labour markets and the business economy. In the age of the market, caste is a resource, sometimes in the form of a network, its opportunity-hoarding advantages discriminating against others. Dalits are not discriminated by caste as a set of relations separate from economy, but by the very economic and market processes through which they often seek liberation. The caste processes, enclosures, and evasions in post-liberalization India suggest the need to rethink the modernity of caste beyond orientalist and post-colonial frameworks, and consider the presuppositions that shape understanding of an institution, the nature and experience of which are determined by the inequalities and subject positions it produces.

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2019

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“…Researchers have mentioned that the mechanisms of oppression and the experiences of social suffering involved at the intersections of caste, class and gender are still unknown even after affecting millions of people (Jadhav et al, 2016). This highlights that caste and gender affect all parts of people's lives, making it imperative to explore them in more detail.…”

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Life Satisfaction and Well-Being at the Intersections of Caste and Gender in India

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2022

Psychol Stud

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Psychological research has a paucity of studies on caste and well-being. Existing literature on caste has extensively focused on pathological conditions in rural areas. In contrast, individuals who experience vulnerabilities in urban areas at the intersections of caste and gender identities are still underrepresented in the research literature on the psychology of well-being. The present study recognises this gap in research and explores the interaction of caste and gender on life satisfaction and well-being in urban areas. On administering the Satisfaction with Life Scale and Mental Health Continuum-short form to a sample of 465 young adults, the results revealed significant caste differences in both life satisfaction and well-being. The findings highlight that general caste individuals have higher life satisfaction and well-being than scheduled caste individuals. The findings also indicate significant gender differences in life satisfaction, with women having higher life satisfaction than men across caste groups. Results revealed no interaction effect between caste and gender. Consistent with earlier studies, the results on caste suggest that despite its discourses of diminishing importance, especially in urban areas, caste does play a significant role in an individual's well-being and life satisfaction. Hence, the findings have implications for policy-making, education, and training to understand caste-based experiences better.

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“…In this context, arts practices ensure the creation of a non-threatening, safe space for expression, such that distress can be culturally framed through a social justice lens. One such example is Jadhav's use of the term social defeat to situate the social suffering of Dalit students experiencing psychological and suicidal distress within elite educational institutions due to institutional casteism (Jadhav et al, 2016) with preliminary findings from a study employing such a lens supporting the need for culturally resonant care (Jadhav, 2019).…”

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