Change and Mobility in Contemporary India : Thinking M. N. Srinivas Today (Paperback)

List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. Glossary. M N Srinivas and the Kaleidoscope of Social Change in Modern India: A Critical Introduction, Sobin George, Manohar Yadav, and Anand Inbanathan Part I ? Caste Today: Resilience, Conflicts and Contestations 1. Some Debatable Arguments about Changing Inter-Caste Dynamics in Rural India James Manor 2. On the Veracity of the Processes of Social Mobility and Change in India Manohar Yadav 3. Recasting Political Mobility: Scheduled Caste Gram Panchayat Presidents and the ‘Dominant Lower Castes’ in Tamil Nadu Anand Inbanathan 4. Caste and the Business of Democracy: Insights from Rural Karnataka Kripa Ananthpur and Radhika Viswanathan Part II ? Caste and Mobility: Views from Below 5. M.N. Srinivas and his ‘Field-View’ of Society: Some Critical Reflections Joseph Tharamangalam 6. One Village and Many Changes: The Problematique of Understanding Mobility of Dalits Sobin George 7. Caste, Religion and Recognition: Trajectories of Pasmanda Muslim Movements Tanweer Fazal Part III ? Marginalities and Development 8. Youth, Endogenous Discrimination and the Development Conundrum S Madheswaran, Smrutirekha Singhari and B P Vani 9. Multiple Marginalities: Educational and Occupational Mobility of Differently-Abled Persons Across Social Groups in India C M Lakshmana 10. Economic, Occupational and Livelihood Changes of Scheduled Tribes of North Eastern Region Reimeingam Marchang 11. ‘Outsourcing’ in Coal Mining: Understanding Labour, Livelihood and Mafia Politics in the Coalfields of Dhanbad, Jharkhand Sujit Kumar 12. From Mobilisations to Mediations: Shifting Trajectories of Latin Catholic Church’s Engagements to Neo-Liberal Development Projects in Kerala Abdul Raoof C K Appendix. Index.