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Caste is social hierarchy which slot Dalit castes as the most inferior and despicable group of people. introduction of liberal ideas in village society by the action of political parties and expansion of market society have enabled Dalits to question the conceptual and moral basis of caste hierarchy. But unavailability of remunerative employment and land inequalities forces dalits to bear the brunt of this system of inequality. Ethnographic account of a South Indian village elaborated in this article locate caste reproduction and its contestation in a coastal Andhra village.
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Recent scholarship on caste and electoral democracy in India gives a far more optimistic account of changes in caste relations. This article explores both contestation of caste and its reproduction
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This page is a summary of: ‘Though he is a landlord, that Sarpanch is my servant!’ Caste and democracy in a village of south India, Contemporary South Asia, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09584935.2017.1353951.
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