01211nam a22001337a 4500 533799 533799 260624b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Singh, Asha and Donald, Nidhin 61327 Caste as a perilous promise? : Thinking with and beyond the Bihar caste survey/Census Economic & Political Weekly 61(23), Jun 6, 2026: p.65-74 Notwithstanding 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 https://www.epw.in/journal/special-articles/caste-perilous-promise.html Economic & Political Weekly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408979 IIPA IIPA 2026-06-24 61(23), Jun 6, 2026: p.65-74 AR139261 2026-06-24 AR