What Lies Beneath the Successes of Hindutva: Reading the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022

Trivedi, Prashant K.; Singh, Shilp Shikha

doi:10.1177/23210230221135832

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“…In contrast, other scholars have suggested that caste identity remains resilient and crucial in its electoral prominence and essence (Gurjar 2019;Jaffrelot 2019;Singh 2022;Trivedi & Singh 2022). These scholars have also argued that while other factors such as development, governance, and national security may have influenced the outcome of recent elections, caste continues to play a significant role in shaping voting patterns in India.…”

Section: Memory Caste and Politics In Upmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…One exception is Shilp Shikha Singh's analyses, as she points out that political parties employ myths, and construct narratives in mobilizing various sub-castes, with BJP not being the sole protagonist in this process. Most importantly, she has noted that the electoral performance of Hindutva forces has developed a kind of 'cognitive blackout' in understanding the "subtle interconnections between the social and the political" in examination of political development in UP recently (Trivedi & Singh 2022).…”

Section: Memory Caste and Politics In Upmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Promise of Memory: Politics of Memory and Caste Inequality in Collective Memory Consolidation

Choudhary

2024

J-CASTE

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In the generic description of Indian society, the question of memory is about passive recollection of past. But in the caste-system based Indian experience, memory is also an active source of transforming one’s condition in the present and reshaping the understanding of past. Based on the fieldwork conducted on the sites of important Dalit monuments in Uttar Pradesh with a focus on the process of memory consolidation in individual and collective entities, the role of memory in mobilization of political narratives and inter-group inequality is examined. The core argument is that Dalits are unequally placed as an entity in the caste-based memory structure of collective memory; this unequal placement of Dalits is carefully constructed and mobilized by the dominant castes. In the anti-caste struggle of Dalits, collective memory consolidation has played a vital role in ideologically creating counter-memories to challenge the Hindutva meta-narratives. Yet, there continues shaping of collective memory of Dalits by dominant castes by appropriating Dalit icons. Thus, the collective memory of creating an integrated Hindu identity as the only source of identifying with the past recently has led to the marginalization of Dalits’ collective memory. Overall, this article highlights the role of collective memory for a meaningful understanding of the caste politics.

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Section: Memory Caste and Politics In Upmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Memory Caste and Politics In Upmentioning

confidence: 99%