The Political Role of India’s Caste Associations
The article below was originally published in Pacific Affairs, Volume 33, No. 1, March 1960. We are re-publishing it here, with additional commentary. I consider this exercise to be of considerable importance in an age where “memory” even in scholarly circles is vanishingly brief and examples of “reinventing the wheel” with new jargon abound. Thoughtful engagement and reconsideration of substantive work from previous decades seems to me a concrete and useful way to address these problems and enrich our collective enterprise. – Editor
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Originally published in Pacific Affairs, Volume 33, No. 1, March 1960
DOI: 10.5509/2012852335
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After Fifty Years of Political and Social Change: Caste Associations and Politics in India
James Manor
University of London, London, United Kingdom
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The Persistence of Caste in India
Ronojoy Sen
Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore
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From Caste Associations to Identity Politics: From Self-Help to Goonda Raj and Beyond
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