Pandian, M.S.S. <br/><br/>
One step outside modernity: caste, identity politics and public sphere 

 -  2002 
 - p.1735-741. 
 - 4 MaY 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Caste