01151nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100003600041245009000077260003300167300003300200520077500233773003301008260624b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSingh, Asha  and Donald, Nidhin  aCaste as a perilous promise? : Thinking with and beyond the Bihar caste survey/Census  aEconomic & Political Weekly   a61(23), Jun 6, 2026: p.65-74  aNotwithstanding its serious gender blindness and other limitations, the Bihar caste survey report achieves two seemingly contradictory feats: one, it vindicates caste as a socially-intelligible category in Bihar, which captures certain aspects of under-representation and maldistribution; two, it questions the analytical and political purchase of caste and caste-funnelled governance by exposing the massive substratum of the Bihari “underclass” across castes. The survey alludes to the fact that caste does not stand by itself. Its workings are visible within the complex folds of material conditions. In other words, it brings out the tenacious “class character of caste.”- Reproduced 

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