Scheduled Castes Policies in Interstate Perspective: Constitutional Power, Argumentative Practices, and Governance in India

Berg, Dag-Erik

doi:10.1080/14736489.2014.937269

India Review

2014

DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2014.937269

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Scheduled Castes Policies in Interstate Perspective: Constitutional Power, Argumentative Practices, and Governance in India

Dag-Erik Berg

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“… 6 See (accessed 24 September 2019). The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is the nodal Ministry overseeing the interests of the Scheduled Castes and the legal protections and schemes of assistance via the state Scheduled Castes Development Corporations (SCDCs) (Berg 2014, 245). The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (separately constituted) advises on constitutional safeguards (on matters of untouchability, forced and child labour, and temple entry) and ‘special provisions’ (affirmative action).…”

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The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy

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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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Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage

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How Caste Shapes the Origin and Transformation of Work and Employment in India

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2024

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Studies in social sciences have an extensive literature that deals with caste as a governing social institution and its relevance in India’s socio-political and economic realms. For instance, research on labour segmentation and its linkages with material inequality or economic status has a long history. This article contextualises the history of caste order in India, which recognised the predominant role of occupation and the related socio-economic superiority of work, value and reward. Based on an analytical review of available literature, it suggests that in addition to the debates on the policy of reservations in India, there is an equally pertinent question: Why the direct impact to disintegrate caste-occupational affiliations continues to remain at numerically miniscule levels (central government data) despite an elaborate constitutional mechanism to secure valued positions of formal employment in place?

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Scheduled Castes Policies in Interstate Perspective: Constitutional Power, Argumentative Practices, and Governance in India

Cited by 3 publications

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The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy

The Modernity of Caste and the Market Economy

Caste and development: Contemporary perspectives on a structure of discrimination and advantage

How Caste Shapes the Origin and Transformation of Work and Employment in India

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