Caste in Contemporary India

Jodhka, Surinder S.

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“…Families appeared to be under tremendous pressure to abide by social codes related to caste and patriarchy, which according to our informants were passed on through generations. People who transgressed these norms were penalized and in extreme cases ostracized from the community (for in‐depth and insightful social–anthropological accounts of village life in India, refer to Srinivas, ; Bhyrappa, ; Breman, ; Jodhka, ).…”

Section: Empirical Contextmentioning

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Impact sourcing ventures and local communities: a frame alignment perspective

Sandeep

Ravishankar

2015

Information Systems Journal

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Using qualitative methods, this paper explores how impact sourcing (ImS) ventures frame their activities to marginalized communities. In doing so, the paper attempts to unearth the social–psychological processes undergirding ImS strategies. The findings highlight the difficulties faced by ImS ventures in operationalizing their strategic intent. More specifically, the paper provides insights into how different and diverse framings are used by ImS ventures to influence the local community. From a strategic perspective, the paper suggests that framings related to progress, family, material benefit and egalitarianism can help overcome the inevitable tensions and misunderstandings with the community. Drawing on the findings, we develop a process model that describes how competing framings of an ImS venture and the community could eventually align. Theoretically, the paper illuminates the day to day micro‐processes of reality negotiation between socially driven information technology – business process outsourcing businesses and the local communities they seek to impact.

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Section: Empirical Contextmentioning

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Impact sourcing ventures and local communities: a frame alignment perspective

Sandeep

Ravishankar

2015

Information Systems Journal

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“…racial, feudal orders) (Slate, 2011). Used analogically, caste can elucidate closed ascriptive social hierarchies in which physical and symbolic violence sustain economic and social distinctions (Jodhka, 2016(Jodhka, , 2017. Caste features appearing 'essential' and 'fixed' (i.e.…”

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Citizenship as a caste marker: How persons experience cross-national inequality

Velitchkova

2021

Current Sociology

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Extrapolating a recent conceptualization of caste from India to the global level, this article argues that persons experience cross-national inequalities via their citizenship as a caste marker. Rather than imagine castes as features of the fixed pre-modern Hindu social order, the article posits that castes are variable modern ascriptive social hierarchies subject to contestation and change in which economic and social distinctions are maintained through physical and symbolic violence. The study shows how, globally, nation-states exert physical and symbolic violence to normalize cross-national inequalities instituting a global citizenship-based caste order. This approach recognizes the importance of both global material relations emphasized by world-systems approaches and of symbolic structures central to global institutionalist approaches. The study also underscores persons’ positions and experiences confronting nation-states’ might. Power struggles concentrated on nation-states result in variability of global relations’ mutually reinforcing material and symbolic dimensions. The author uses caste features that appear ‘essential’ (i.e. ascriptive social closure, ‘ethnic,’ ‘religious,’ and ‘purity’ distinctions) as heuristics for identifying possible locations of caste construction and contestation, and identifies citizenship rules, nation-states’ territorial nature, nationalism, and visa, border, and naturalization rituals as such caste development sites. Vulnerable groups (stateless persons, refugees, migrants) both challenge the citizenship caste order and experience viscerally its physical and symbolic violence.

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“…Nevertheless, caste discrimination and differentiation cannot be denied or ignored. Social scientists have reported increasing evidence of caste-based differentiation and identity threats in the rural parts of India (Jodhka, 2017). Owing to shifts in economic and political power relations among the lower castes, there has been a rise in resistance from the general ("higher") caste people, resulting in violence toward people from the "lower" (backward) castes over the past decade (Gorringe, 2012;Gorringe & ProQuest, 2005;Jaoul, 2008;Jodhka, 2017;Teltumbde, 2010).…”

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Indian caste names and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Tiwari

Ścigała

Schild

et al. 2021

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Ingroup/outgroup categorisation is a repeatedly found phenomenon. Given the long‐standing caste system, the Indian societal structure provides a unique perspective on such social categorisation. The Indian caste system contains hereditarily inherited identity roles defining profession and status‐based hierarchies. In this preregistered experiment, we investigate the influence of caste‐based identity on cooperation using a (hypothetical) Prisoner’s Dilemma. Specifically, Indian participants (N = 685) were paired with a (hypothetical) other in a Prisoner’s Dilemma, whose last name reflected either a general caste (i.e., a “high” caste) or a backward (“lower”) caste including the scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, and other backward classes. Because participants indicated belonging to a general or a backward caste themselves, they thus played the (hypothetical) Prisoner’s Dilemma with either a member of the same or a different caste group. We did not find that the partner’s caste group membership in terms of stemming from an ingroup (same caste) or outgroup (different caste) influenced participants’ cooperation. Further, we found participants from the general caste to be more cooperative when paired with (hypothetical) backward caste others (outgroup), compared to backward caste participants when paired with (hypothetical) general caste participants (outgroup); however, this difference disappeared once controlling for other demographic characteristics.

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Caste in Contemporary India

Cited by 16 publications

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Impact sourcing ventures and local communities: a frame alignment perspective

Impact sourcing ventures and local communities: a frame alignment perspective

Citizenship as a caste marker: How persons experience cross-national inequality

Indian caste names and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

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