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Crisis in Sociology A Tired Discipline

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Communalising the Nation-Space-Notes on Spatial Strategies of Hindutva

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Current Impasse in Language of Rights-Questions of Context

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Caste and the Census-Implications for Society and the Social Sciences

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Indian Anthropology and Sociology

There is need of a rigorous and comprehensive history of Indian sociology-anthropology, constituted as a full-fledged research area, to study the material, ideological and institutional context in...

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Social Science Research Capacity in South Asia

A note on the issues of broad significance that need to be thought about and discussed in the larger community of social scientists in south Asia.read more

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Redesigning Affirmative Action

Arguing for better policy design in affirmative action, this paper presents an illustrative model of a feasible alternative to caste quotas. The proposed model is evidence-based, addresses multiple...

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Exclusive Inequalities

This essay suggests that questions of merit, caste and discrimination in Indian higher education can be usefully analysed in a framework defined by "exclusive inequalities". Beginning with a discussion...

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Declining Simplistic Narratives

New castes and classes have entered the academy in recent years, but we have few suggestions for constructive engagement with the new groups coming into the academy. There has been the...

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Theorising the Present: Problems and Possibilities

The usefulness or otherwise of the kind of theory that Chatterjee offers is decided by its ability to offer a symptomatic reading of significant trends and trajectories. Does the essay on democracy and...

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The Postnational Condition

This brief note introduces the reader to the set of essays in this special issue.read more

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The Practice of Social Theory and the Politics of Location

Concerned with the ways in which "globalisation" seems to be undermining "the politics of location", this essay argues that the latter is both possible and necessary. However, a contemporary politics...

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The Politics of Not Counting Caste

In the debate on whether or not to count caste in the 2011 Census, there has been too little reflection on the implicit assumptions and analogies about both the census and caste that underpin the...

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Capitalism, Exclusion, Transition: The Politics of the Present

Kalyan Sanyal's magnum opus, Rethinking Capitalist Development, can be seen as a contribution to the project of reimagining political economy in a way that would place "unsolved political problems" at...

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Caste and Castelessness

As a modern republic, India felt duty-bound to "abolish" caste, and this led the State to pursue the confl icting policies of social justice and caste-blindness. As a consequence, the privileged upper...

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