Pandian, M.S.S.
One step outside modernity: caste, identity politics and public sphere - 2002 - p.1735-741. - 4 MaY
The contradictory engagement with modernity by the lower castes has an important message: being one step outside modernity alone can guarantee them a public where the politics of difference can articulate itself, and caste can emerge as a legitimate category of democratic politics. Being one step outside modernity is indeed being one step ahead of modernity.
Caste
One step outside modernity: caste, identity politics and public sphere - 2002 - p.1735-741. - 4 MaY
The contradictory engagement with modernity by the lower castes has an important message: being one step outside modernity alone can guarantee them a public where the politics of difference can articulate itself, and caste can emerge as a legitimate category of democratic politics. Being one step outside modernity is indeed being one step ahead of modernity.
Caste