Preface - Manoranjan Mohanty
Introduction: Dimensions of Power and Social Transformation
PART ONE: CLASS STRUCTURE AND THE STATE
Caste and Agrarian Class - Anand Chakravarti
A View from Bihar
The Political Economy of the Economic Reform Strategy - Prabhat
Patnaik et al
The Role of the Indian Capitalist Class
The Working Class Movement in India - Sharit K Bhowmik
Trade Unions and the State
PART TWO: CASTE DOMINATION AND POLITICAL POWER
Castes in India - B R Ambedkar
Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development
Caste in Modern India - M N Srinivas
Castes in Indian Politics - Rajni Kothari
Reservations Policy Revisited - D L Sheth
Caste or Class or Caste-Class - Kancha Ilaiah
A Study in Dalit-Bahujan Consciousness and Struggles in Andhra
Pradesh in 1980s
The Language of Dalit-Bahujan Political Discourse - Gopal Guru
PART THREE: GENDER INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Conceptualizing Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India - Uma
Chakravarti
Gender, Caste, Class and State
An Overview of the Status of Women in India - Neera Desai and
Maithreyi Krishanaraj
Women and People′s Movement - Ilina Sen
A Space within the Struggle
Gender Inequality and Women′s Agency - Jean Drèze and Amartya
Sen
Conclusion: Social Movements in a Creative Society - Manoranjan
Mohanty
Appendix
Index
Manoranjan Mohanty is a renowned political scientist and China
scholar whose writings have focused on theoretical and empirical
dimensions of social movements, human rights, the development
experience and the regional role of India and China. As
Vice-President of the Council for Social Development (CSD) and
Editor of CSD’s social science journal Social Change, published by
SAGE, he brings a wealth of experience from both policy and
practice perspectives. He is also Chairperson, Development Research
Institute, Bhubaneswar, and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese
Studies (ICS), Delhi. Until 2004, he was Director, Developing
Countries Research Centre, and Professor of Political Science at
University of Delhi where he taught until his retirement. Former
Chairperson and Director of ICS and former Editor of China Report,
he has been on visiting assignments in several universities and
research institutes in India and abroad including University of
California, Berkeley; Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow,
Oxford, Beijing, Copenhagen, Lagos; University of California, Santa
Barbara; and the New School, New York. Professor Mohanty has been a
part of the founding and evolution of ICS, the Developing Countries
Research Centre at University of Delhi and Gabeshana Chakra and
Development Research Institute in Odisha. He has also been closely
involved with the People’s Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, and
the Pakistan–India People’s Forum for Democracy since their
inception. He was part of the founding process of the Boao Forum
for Asia in China and REGGEN, the Third-World sustainable
development network in Brazil. His other contributions include
‘China’s Reforms: The Wuxi Story’ in China after 1978: Craters in
the Moon (2010), Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi
Jinping (2014), ‘Political Discourse on Public Sector Reforms in
India and China’ in Public Sector Reforms in China (2014) and
‘India, China and the Emerging Process of Building a Just World’ in
Building a Just World: Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey
(2015).
Contact Prof Manoranjan Mohanty at:
University of Delhi and Council for Social Development, Delhi
Email: mm@csdindia.org; mmohantydu@gmail.com
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