One step outside modernity: caste, identity politics and public sphere
By: Pandian, M.S.S.
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Description: p.1735-741.Subject(s): Caste
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Economic and Political WeeklySummary: 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.
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | Volume no: 37, Issue no: 18 | Available | AR52701 |
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.
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